NHER 55942 (Building record) - The Octagon, Hunstanton Hall
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TF64SE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | OLD HUNSTANTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
Previously recorded under NHER 1117.
Garden building built around 1640 for Sir Hamon Le Strange. possibly by William Edge, stonemason, then engaged by Sir Roger Townshend at Raynham Hall. Squared, coursed carstone with galletting, cut stone details moulded and rubble brick, 20th century flat roof in temporary materials. Octagonal on plan, single storey with a classical frontispiece. Cut stone frontispiece entrance occupying a whole bay with stone plinth, smooth drafted rustication above.
Information from (S1).
March 1981. Site visit.
Semi-derelict, but ceiling intact. Known as the Music Room.
E. Rose (NAU).
October 1991. Site visit.
Moat around Octagon is dry and under derelict woodland. The building has been vandalised but has since been restored.
H. Paterson (NLA), October 1991.
(S2) suggests this is a banqueting house of around 1655.
See also (S3).
E. Rose, 1 February 2003.
Associated Sources (13)
- --- SNF48917 Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1996. TF6941/AD - AQ; TF6842/G.
- --- SNF11548 Aerial Photograph: TF6941 A,B,G-L (AAF), M,Q,S,Z-AC (Unit).
- --- SNF49212 Drawing: Various. Various. Architectural plans.
- --- SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 440.
- --- SNF66250 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1993-1997. [Articles about the Octagon at Hunstanton Hall].
- --- SNF97779 Photograph: [anonymous]. 2017. Photographs of The Octagon, Hunstanton Hall.. Norfolk County Council Conservation Team. Digital. jpeg.
- --- SNF82143 Photograph: [Unknown]. [unknown]. Photographs of The Octagon, Hunstanton Hall.. Norfolk County Council Conservation Team. film. black and white print.
- --- SNF8872 Photograph: BDE18,SC(2)1-2.
- --- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
- --- SNF51493 Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1967. OS/67069 093-4 26-APR-1967.
- <S1> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England.
- <S2> SNF48298 Monograph: Williamson, T. 1998. Archaeology of the Landscape Park: Garden Design in Norfolk, England, c. 1680-1840. BAR (British Series). Vol 268. p 252.
- <S3> SNF66248 Unpublished Document: Rose, E.. 2003. Building Report. Hunstanton Hall.. Building Report. February.
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Related NHER Records (1)
Record last edited
Aug 12 2025 8:48AM