NHER 62659 (Monument record) - Site of Gapton Hall

This was the site of a substantial dwelling known as Gapton Hall, which was demolished in the latter half of the 20th century. It appears that this hall was probably associated with what was originally the large medieval manor of 'Gapton Hall with Belton', which held a considerable amount of land in the area. See, for example, the entry for Belton in (S1).
The age and nature of the building that that was demolished in the 20th century is however unclear. There is possibly some form of structure marked at this location on Faden’s map of 1797 but it is not labelled. The earliest readily-available map of the area to depict the hall would appear to be the Bradwell Tithe map of 1842, which also shows a number of outbuildings to the west. It appears that the majority of these outbuildings survived into the 20th century and were demolished at the same time as the hall itself.
P. Watkins (HES), 16 April 2018.

January 2013. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of groundworks associated with construction of warehouse extension on site of Gapton Hall. The three foundation trenches exposed a single north-west to south-east aligned brick wall of probable 19th century date. A capstone found nearby suggests that this may have been a free-standing boundary wall of some kind, rather than part of a building. This would appear to be consistent with the cartographic evidence, which suggests these groundworks probably largely took place within what would have been series of walled courtyards between the hall and the main group of outbuildings. As would be expected given the history of the site the deposits encountered were mostly of obviously recent date and associated with either the demolition of the hall or subsequent phases of construction.
See report (S2) for further details.
The archive associated with this work has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2017.552).
P. Watkins (HES), 16 April 2018