STANHOE HALL

STANHOE HALL, DOCKING ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342334
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: STANHOE HALL
Statutory Address:: STANHOE HALL, DOCKING ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342334
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Apr-1985
List Entry Name:: STANHOE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: STANHOE HALL, DOCKING ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STANHOE HALL, DOCKING ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Stanhoe
National Grid Reference:: TF8000836990

Details

TF 83 NW 4/48

STANHOE DOCKING ROAD (north) Stanhoe Hall

(formerly listed as Stanhoe Hall and Stabling)

5.6.53

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House. 1703. Built as a present from her father Sir Thomas Turner on Jane Turner's marriage to Thomas Archdale, perhaps by Henry Bell of King's Lynn, architect. Thomas Kempe of Stanhoe also recorded as stone mason. Flemish bond red brick, ashlar dressings, tiled roof. 2 storeys with attics. 7 bays, double pile on plan under single depth hipped roof. Entrance front has three projecting central bays, 2 flanking bays. 6 ground and 7 first floor 8-pane height sashes with glazing bars set in ashlar architrave surrounds with sills. Stone doorcase of Baroque inspiration has outer pilaster strips, console brackets and bolection moulding frieze supporting cornice and broken segmental pediment. Inner architrave has lugged ears. 6-panel raised and fielded 2-leaf outer doors, part glazed 2-leaf inner doors. Moulded stone plinth string course, -- first floor platband, raised and chamfered end quoins. Moulded wooden eaves with simplified projecting modillion cornice supporting deep eaves projection with guttering. 3 replacement pedimented 2 light casement dormers. Hipped roof with 2 stacks only to central flat valley. Attached at east single storey orangery addition c.1840. 3 fixed sashes with glazing bars, one 2-leaf glazed door, all with fanlight glazing bar heads under semi-circular rubbed brick arches with stone drip moulds. Stone dentil eaves cornice. Brick curtain wall of same build with end quoins to east marks base of demolished former service wing. West garden front has single ground floor part glazed door, one first floor sash with glazing bars, ashlar architrave surrounds. Rectangular brick and ashlar bow window addition c.1840 to north has 3 west, one north and south sashes with glazing bars. Stone cornice and balustrade above. North front has single projecting central bay, 3 flanking north and south bays. 6 ground floor 9-pane height and 7 first floor 8-pane height sashes with glazing bars, all with ashlar architrave surrounds. Central doorcase with ashlar architrave and pediment, glazed door. Ashlar plinth string and first floor platband continued round all facades. Interior: central south stone flagged hall with panelling and bolection moulding fireplace. 2 panelled rooms to north. Half-turn staircase with landings. Simple strings, 3 turned barley sugar balusters per tread, panelled dado. Central east-west axis ground and first floor corridors divide the two piles. First floor has 3 north and 3 south panelled rooms, some with bolection moulding fireplaces. Raised and fielded doors with brass furniture throughout. Service stairs at east have ribbon pattern balusters from first floor landing upwards. Rigid symmetry of double pile plan on ground and first floor suggests hand of Bell, much employed by Sir Thomas Turner and his family. See H.M. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840 (1978) p.105. Country Life 15 and 29, September 1966.

Listing NGR: TF8000836990

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Legacy System number:: 221580
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 105
'Country Life' in 29 September, (1966)
'Country Life' in 15 September, (1966)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.