The Old Hall
THE OLD HALL, HONINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373037
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD HALL, HONINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373037
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD HALL, HONINGHAM 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:
- THE OLD HALL, HONINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnham Broom
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 07878 08050
Details
TG 00 NE BARNHAM BROOM HONINGHAM ROAD (west side) 3/9 The Old Hall
2.10.51 I
Former manor house. C16 and C17 with some late C18 refurbishment. Diaper patterned brickwork with a pantiled roof. Long rectangle in plan with an off-centre 3-storey porch and stair outshut directly opposite to rear. 2-storeys with attic. C16 porch with polygonal angle turrets topped with obelisk finials. 4-centred moulded archway with a rectangular hood-moulded window above with a 3-light C18 mullioned and transomed frame. 2-light arched mullioned window at second floor. Crow-stepped gable and canted stair-turret to side. C16 front door with linenfold panelling and carved spandrels to frame,, To south of porch a blocked ogee- and roll-moulded 4-light wooden mullioned window partially obscured by porch; a large early C16 - opening with a 4-centred arch and hood-mould; 4 late C18 mullioned and transomed windows the 2 to south with arched heads in 'gothick' style; in centre 2 C20 mullioned windows in position of former canted bay. To north of porch 3 early C17 openings with painted moulded brick pediments on pul- vinated friezes with 2 flat-topped 3-light dormers and crow-stepped gables to front only. Gable-end stacks with polygonal chimneys; 2 axial stacks; to south rectangular with a cusped blind arcade to base, to north circular. Several early C17 ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows to rear and north gable-end. 3 3-light flat-topped dormers. Fine C16 tight ribbon- moulded beams in hall. Dining room fireplace with a 4-centred arched wooden lintel with remains of similar ribbon moulding in spandrels. Late C18 barrel vaulted passageways, 'gothick' panelled doors and ribbed geometric plaster ceilings. Early C17 winding stair with oak treads and risers around a closed timber-framed well. 2 door frames with 4-centred heads and carved spandrels. Several early C17 panelled doors. Very fine plaster ceiling and frieze dated 1614 in centre of north frieze; large central pendant with a complex ribbed geometric framework radiating from it; panels filled with bosses and varied vegetal and geometric motifs; busy inhabited-scroll frieze. Remains of strapwork frieze in adjoining room. C17 arched fireplace in attic with a strapwork design above. C17 butt-purlin and collar roof to north with remains of an earlier clasped purlin with reduced principals type to south. M.Girouard, "Barnham Broom Hall, Norfolk", Country Life, CXLI, 1967, pp 402-5.
Listing NGR: TG0814407998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226482
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 141, (1967), 402-5
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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