Description

TG 11 NW GREAT WITCHINGHAM HALL ROAD

6/31 Great Witchingham Hall.
(formerly listed as
19.1.52 The Hall).

II*

Country house, now partly offices. Late C16/early C17 in origin, much altered
and remodelled in the C19. Red brick with stone and plastered brick dressings:
steeply pitched slate roof. Two and three storeys. On the south front a
Tudor porch and two adjoining bays, three storeys, mullion and transom windows
with pediments, stepped gables and embattled parapets, South wing of 1812 built
by Timothy Tompson: two storeys, pedimented windows, crow-stepped gables, bays
divided by pilaster with crocketted pinnacles. North front remodelled by
Charles Kett Thompson in 1872: three storeys, millioned, transomed and pedimented
windows, stepped gables and crenellated parapets. Two canted bays with polygonal
angle turrets and finials. Many groups of moulded brick chimney shafts with
star-caps. Good fireplace of 1609 with female figures against the ovemantel.
Some panelling, said to have come from Kirstead Hall.

Listing NGR: TG1118618603

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q40109638

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)