Rackheath Hall
RACKHEATH HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372979
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rackheath Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RACKHEATH HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1372979
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rackheath Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RACKHEATH HALL
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:
- RACKHEATH HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rackheath
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 27382 12590
Details
TG 21 SE RACKHEATH RACKHEATH PARK
6/63 Rackheath Hall.
G.V. II
Country house, built 1852-4 for Humphrey Stracey. Red brick, rendered and ashlared. Ground floor ashlared and vermiculated. Roofs slated (roof of main block not visible behind parapet). Three storeys and cellar. 9 x 6 bays : Western facade of nine bays, centre bay advanced with giant Ionic corner pilasters. Central portico with Tuscan columns and frieze; balustrade at first floor level. Sash windows with glazing bars. First and second floor windows have rendered surrounds; first floor windows have flat canopies on console brackets. Plat band at first floor cill level. Massive corner pilasters with giant Ionic columns. Moulded cornice with rope-work frieze. Parapet panelled and pierced, with stone balusters. Stone urns at parapet corners. North front of six bays with central three bay Tuscan porte-cochere. Off-centre entrance with bolection moulded architrave and cornice, ornate rectangular fanlight and C20 door. Massive full-height pilaster on left-hand side of door. Detailing and surface treatment all as west facade. Symmetrical south facade of nine bays with central three-bay bow, segmental in plan. Giant Ionic pilasters on rusticated and vermiculated ground floor. Sash windows extending to ground level in outer bays; centre three sashes without glazing bars. Tall first floor sashes with glazing bars and elaborately-moulded architraves, apron panels and pediments on console brackets. Parapet with some urns surviving. To the east a lower service wing and conservatory with some C20 fenestration.
Listing NGR: TG2738212590
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228196
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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