Description

TG 24 SW
2/27

HALL ROAD
Cromer Hall including adjoining Stables

II*

Circa 1829 by Donthorne. First built in 1827 by Donthorne but destroyed or damaged by fire in 1829 and rebuilt soon after. Additions of 1875. Large mansion in Tudor Gothic style. Built of flint (Quaternary and Quarry Flint) with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings and slate roof. Asymmetrical plan. Two and three storeys. Moulded coping to parapet, the central three storey block embattled. All gothic windows, mostly large mullion windows with four-centred heads and traceried. Projecting two storeys at centre with stepped gable and octagonal tower on corner, and porch with embattled parapet and four-centred arch doorway. The end bays gabled with round window in gable and corbelled chimney at apices, the right hand (north) wing has bell tower over roof with battlements and short spire. Many tall stone chimneys, grouped and octagonal.

Including range of adjoining stables and domestic wing to north-east, built behind flint screen wall with three four-centred headed doorways and two stone mullion/transom windows, the outside walls are flint, but inside facing courtyard brick walls with low pitched hipped slated roofs, also with octagonal chimneys, sash windows with glazing bars and large four-centred arch headed carriageway doors.

Listing NGR: TG2145841660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cromer Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5187594

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)