NHER 14471 (Building record) - Old Hall Farmhouse

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This early 17th century farmhouse is reputed to have been a manor house. It has a timber frame with brick north gable, offcentre chimneystack, and south firegable. The façade is coated in brick and this probably occurred when the building was subdivided as a farm in around 1790. A number of 18th/19th century barns are associated with the farmhouse.

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Map sheet TG31SE
Civil Parish SOUTH WALSHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK

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Reputed to have been a manor house. Timber framed building with brick north gable, offcentre stack, and south firegable. Possibility that latter may be older than rest, but probably all one date, early 17th century, with kitchen replacing usual service rooms. Facade coated in brick, probably when subdivided as farm in around 1790. Extensions of this date and later. 18th/19th century barns (see also NHER 12120). Severely damaged by fire March 1997.
See full report and press cutting (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 20 March 1997.

February 1998. Building Survey.
Royal Commission of Historic Monuments Survey agrees with above in broad terms but adds many more details not visible when above survey was made - building since stripped down for reconstruction.
See report (S2) for further details. This survey is also noted in (S3).
E. Rose (NLA) 10 August 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 12 March 2015.

  • --- Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 669.
  • --- Photograph: HNY 1-8.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1997. Cottages are destroyed by midnight fire. 17 March.
  • <S2> Unpublished Contractor Report: Menuge, A. 1998. Survey Report. Old Hall Farm, South Walsham, Norfolk. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England.
  • <S3> Article in Serial: Gurney, D. and Penn, K. (eds). 1999. Excavations and Surveys in Norfolk 1998. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XLIII Pt II pp 369-387. p 382.

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Record last edited

Aug 9 2016 12:44PM

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