Description

TL 31NE
2/34
24.1.67

WARE RURAL
FANHAMS HALL ROAD
(north side)
Fanhams Hall with buildings on courtyard (The Building Societies Staff College)
(Formerly listed under General)

GV
II*

Country house and outbuildings, now a staff college. Early C18
greatly enlarged and altered in 1898 - 1901 by W Wood Bethell for
Richard Benyon Croft. Bought by Westminster BAnk 1950, and
Building Societies Association 1971. E wall of 3-storeys brick
house of c1715 exposed only in interior courtyard (top floor
c1800). 3-windows wide with flat arches and aprons to windows
with moulded floor bands. Encased and extended as an irregular
3-storeys Jacobean style mansion, roughcast with stone dressings
and mullioned and transomed windows and bays. Steep red tile
roofs behind parapet. Projecting double height hall-range on N
with long-gallery over. The E entrance front has a 3-storeyed
central porch, and is of 8-bays. The W garden front has 3-bays
of 3-storeys, and the hall-wing to the left of 2-storeys, 2-bays
wide, projecting 5-bays forward. The courtyard facade is of 15
bays and 2-storeys. The courtyard entrance is by a round arch
with an ogee hood mould, flanked by twin 2-storey towers with
pyramid roofs. Single-storey cottages built on to retaining wall
and square towers stand at the angles. Exit from court by
archway under clock tower with refaced C18 one and a half storeys
Old Coach House attached. Circa 1965 bedroom wing in outer yard
(car park) not of special interest. Splendid contemporary
interiors in Arts and Crafts style with plasterwork by L A
Turner, stained glass by Morris and Co. in Library, oak panelling
and beamed ceilings, carved stone chimney pieces, and walnut
panelling of lounge inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Fine C18
staircase retained. 2 carved Venetian stone wellheads, one by
service door and one to N of main door. (Pevsner (1977) 382:
RCHM Typescript: papers at house).

Listing NGR: TL3715015620

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Fanhams Hall at Wikipedia
• Fanhams Hall official website
• Wikidata Q5433862

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)