NHER 19788 (Building record) - Hargham Hall, Quidenham

February 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
About 1690 with 19th century additions.
Brick, west front five bay, two storeys and attics. String courses between floors, cornice. Three shallow pedimented dormers. Roof gabled, but hipped to south, about 1800 to contain two storey addition set forward from original range. Porch in the form of Venetian window. Window above flanked by blank windows. South front obscured by porch bay and one storey gabled range of about 1815. Double stepped external stacks to original south wall have blind niches. East front - some windows replaced string course breached to allow central first floor early 18th century window to descend lower than others. Dormers as on west. North gable wall has stacks similar to original south, also blocked windows. 18th century dogleg staircase with iron twist balusters through three storeys. Contemporary walled garden to north with summer house with large shaped gable. 18th century barn to south with Mansard roof.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1983.

Barn to the south of Hargham Hall.
February 1984. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Barn. Early C18. Brick with slate roof. Continuous C20 doors to eaves on west side with sloping louvred window in lower slope of Mansard roof. Flat buttress to north gable, both gables with brick tumbling, first floor door to south. 3 windows to east side and louvred dormer window as before. Interior is 2 storey with bridging beams chamfered and tongue stopped.
Information from (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 2 December 1983.

(S3) states house greatly altered in 1770s before passing to Beevor family in 1795. Is this the date of the alterations described as 'circa 1800' above?
E. Rose (NLA) 17 March 1994.

See documentary evidence in file for house being completed around 1689, which fits the listing date of around 1690 quite nicely.
E. Rose (NLA) 26 September 1995.

Photo (S4) in file.

March 2001. Visit.
Listed building description still correct, see (S5).
Additional information:
Roof structure, now clad in slate, may be a replacement.
In the north wall the blocked windows are infilled with pre-1780 bricks and internally covered with panelling, so this is an early alteration.
The moulded string course is present at the ends but between the two stacks is replaced by a timber set in the wall.
The cellar is original but has a post-1770 barrel vaulted chamber added.
The original door in the midlle of the west façade has been converted to a window around 1800.
Added south range is indeed post 1770. But to the south is a detached stable with east wall of bricks with diagonal skintlings (pre approximately 1780). South wall faced in older bricks but on the interior has full height studwork with jowled corner posts and wallplate; probably 17th century.
The stone balls that topped the gatepiers to the west now lie outside the west door and outside the east door is a double colonette capital of limestone, probably part of the collection kept at the hall in the 19th century.
E. Rose (NLA) 2 March 2001.