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Latitude: 52.5141 / 52°30'50"N
Longitude: 0.6796 / 0°40'46"E
OS Eastings: 581923
OS Northings: 294062
OS Grid: TL819940
Mapcode National: GBR Q9N.BML
Mapcode Global: VHJFH.Q2MJ
Plus Code: 9F42GM7H+JR
Entry Name: Lynford Hall
Listing Date: 3 November 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1342594
English Heritage Legacy ID: 220974
ID on this website: 101342594
Location: Breckland, Norfolk, IP26
County: Norfolk
District: Breckland
Civil Parish: Lynford
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Mundford St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: English country house Country house hotel
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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
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