NHER 10155 (Monument record) - Possible site of the Hermitage Garden

Moat, Hermitage Plantation (name significant? - perhaps only a 'summerhouse' name).
E. Rose (NAU).

See file under NHER 10200 which refers to a moated Hermitage Garden northeast of the Hall (NHER 10207) - not northwest.

1989. NAU aerial photography.
Shows soilmarks of linear feature cutting through the centre of this moat; to north coincides with a removed field boundary, to south on a slightly sinuous course.
E. Rose (NLA) 24 May 1993.

This feature is not on the 1814 maps, and is described very much as a garden feature in the sale particulars of 1839. See extracts from 1839 and 1885 maps in file.
D. Gurney (NLA) 4 February 1997.

August 2003.
Site under mature trees and scrub, masking much of interior, with 'dead' wood over a great part of the site, and some uprooting on banks. Some brick work in tree roots on interior face. Ditches 3-3.5m wide, widening ar northeast corner and to southeast, narrower to the west. Some disturbance of soil to the northwest corner, large stones and pebbles here. A few young conifers planted on east side of platform. Ditches filled with deep boggy silt. Used for pheasant rearing.
H. Paterson (A&E) 26 August 2003.

December 2025. HER Enhancement: Forestry Commission Project K.
The earthworks of the moat are also visible on visualised lidar data from a survey flown in 2022.
J. Powell (Norfolk County Council Environment Service), 08 December 2025