Kimberley House Including Service Wings to North West and South East
KIMBERLEY HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE WINGS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST, BARNHAM BROOM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293198
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Kimberley House Including Service Wings to North West and South East
- Statutory Address:
- KIMBERLEY HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE WINGS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST, BARNHAM BROOM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293198
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Kimberley House Including Service Wings to North West and South East
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIMBERLEY HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE WINGS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST, BARNHAM BROOM ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KIMBERLEY HOUSE INCLUDING SERVICE WINGS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH EAST, BARNHAM BROOM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 09042 04748
Details
WYMONDHAM
TG00SE BARNHAM BROOM ROAD 655-1/3/15 Kimberley House including service 29/12/50 wings to NW and SE (Formerly Listed as: BARNHAM BROOM ROAD Kimberley House including the service wings to the NW and SE) (Formerly Listed as: BARNHAM BROOM ROAD Service wings to the NW and SE of Kimberley House)
II*
Country House. 1712 by William Talman, the corner towers added 1754 by Thomas Prowse to Talman's design. Brick with stone dressings. Lead and felt roof. Entrance front to north-east. 3 storeys, with additional storey in corner towers. 9 bays, centre 3 broken forward under pediment. Corner towers are additional single bays which project to north-east and south-west, but are flush to the 5-bay returns. Bays divided by platbands. Central door behind portico on 4 Ionic columns by Fletcher Watson, 1951. Window above with open segmental pediment. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Main pediment with coat of arms. Plain parapet conceals flat roof. Several stacks arranged symmetrically. Corner towers with hipped slate roofs. South-west (garden) facade similar but plainer. Central French window approached by balustrade which returns to form screen extending the width of the house. To north and south of entrance front are quadrangular wings, linked to house by quadrants by Anthony Salvin, 1835. Quadrants of one storey and basement: brick, sloping slate roof to rear, sashes with glazing bars. Quadrangular wings both similar: brick, 2 storeys, slate hipped roofs. 5 bays, central 3 bays broken forward to each side under pediment, except to north return of north wing and south return to south wing (i.e. those facing away from house and entry drive). Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. North wing with infilled courtyard, south wing restored 1958. INTERIOR of house. Original disposition of 3 rooms of 3 bays to each floor broadly maintained. 2-storey entrance hall and staircase by James Fletcher Watson, 1951. Imperial staircase with turned balusters leads to screen of 2 Corinthian columns and 2 pilasters at first floor. Plastered ceiling. Other details by Watson elsewhere. North-east room by John Sanderson, 1770. Very fine frieze with decoration of paired lions, urns and scrolled foliage. Over one door is a plaster relief panel depicting Moses in the bullrushes. Opposite door with a pair of Corinthian columns supporting a pediment, and, in the frieze, relief scenes of classical figures. A recess to the north-west is flanked by paired Corinthian columns and caryatid figures supporting plastered ceiling. Off recess is an octagonal room by Sanderson (in north tower) with shelving for a china collection and a plaster ceiling. Main staircase of 1754 in south-east tower, with a coffered domed ceiling probably also by Sanderson. Wrought-iron balustrade with waterleaf details. Extensive basements with groined vaults.
Listing NGR: TG0904204748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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