Description

TL 89 SW
8/27

LYNFORD
Lynford Hall

3:11:75

GV II

Hotel and country club. Completed 1862; refurbished and reduced after fire
of 1928.Architect: William Burns.
Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Jacobean style of irregular plan. Main block. 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Asymmetrical entrance facade with central advanced wing with an arched doorway and semicircular fanlight. Elaborate open porch on a pair of Roman Doric columns with open strapwork decoration above. Surmounted by a canted bay also with strapwork. Topped with an extremely elaborate curved gable incorporating a Venetian window, family arms, obelisk finials and an open-topped segmental pediment. Stone 2-, 3- and 4-light ovolo moulded mullion and transom windows throughout. To left of entrance an octagonal corner turret, a first floor oriel window and 2 dormer windows set into curved attic gables. To right of entrance a first floor balcony with stone arcaded railings. End bay slightly advanced with curved gable and square corner turret. Arcaded open parapets, moulded stringcourses, raised shaped ashlar quoins and moulded chimney shafts. Symmetrical garden facade of 7 bays, the central 5 bays with 2-light mullion and transom windows, a central glazed door and a row of dummy dormer windows in stone connected by an open parapet and adorned with elaborate gables and obelisk finials. End bays slightly advanced with further advancement to ground and first floors. 4-light mullion and transom windows and curvilinear gables.
East block razed except for basement after fire of 1928.

Listing NGR: TL8192394062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lynford Hall at Wikipedia
• Lynford Hall official website
• Wikidata Q6708843

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living