Elsing Hall
ELSING HALL, HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169052
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Elsing Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ELSING HALL, HALL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169052
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Elsing Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELSING HALL, HALL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ELSING HALL, HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elsing
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 03998 16011
Details
TG 01 NW ELSING HALL ROAD (north west side)
3/19 Elsing Hall 4.12.51
GV I
Mansion. C15 with important C18 refurbishment. Restored and extended by Thomas Jekyll in 1852. Flint with ashlar dressings, some timber framing to south. Brick. Plain tile roofs. Irregular plan. 2 storeys with attics. North facade. The central section consists of porch and 'oriel' projecting from the hall. Flanking gabled sections flanked in turn by lower single storeyed sections. Service wing to west. C15 2-storey porch with moulded 2-centred entrance arch displaying. blind-traceried spandrels. Diagonal buttresses terminating in carved pinnacle figures. 2 2-light traceried side windows possibly original. 'Oriel' rectangular with diagonal buttresses and a 4-light mullion and transom cusped window. Gabled bays with 8 2-light mullion and transom windows with hood-moulds. Carved label stops to first floor and attic floor. Single angle buttresses becoming octagonal and terminating in carved heraldic, beasts holding metal spears with fleur de lys terminals. Chapel to east echoed by similar extension to west each with a 2-light mullion window with cusped head. C19 4-centred chapel doorway with carved spandrels and a 3-light traceried east window which may, in part, be C15. Service wing set back with a later brick porch with ogee head to entrance. 5-light ground floor mullion window; 2 and single light mullion windows elsewhere. 2 gabled dormers with diagonally set pinnacles. Attached larder cum laundry in brick. South facade. Almost entirely by Thomas Jekyll. 2 projecting gabled wings flanking hall with jettied timber framed upper floors, herringbone brick nogging and moulded brick corbels flanking the jetties. 6 ground floor 2-light mullion and transom windows to wings with pairs of 4- and 2-light windows above. Elaborate internally stepped barge boards. Hall facade with canted stair turret to one. side (opposite 'oriel') with 3 tall single light cusped windows. To other side Gothic style arched doorway with hood mould becoming stringcourse. 5 rectangular loops with carved label stops. Very elaborate gault brick parapet on arched corbel table. Service wing with 2- 3- and single light mullion windows. Chimney shafts in C19 elaborately moulded brick. Interior. Hall open to roof with a C15 oriel arch of 3-shafted responds with facetted capitals and a moulded 2-centred arch. Staircase bay opposite imitates this arch. One original wooden doorframe beneath stair with 4-centred arch and spandrel carvings. Stair and minstrels' gallery elaborately carved in a Jacobean/Medieval style. C20 roof with 3 surviving C15 roll-moulded, arch-braced and cambered tie beams. Several C18 rooms with raised and fielded panelling and carved modillion cornices. Fine C18 dog-leg stair with turned balusters, shaped tread ends and panelled dado. Coved niche in library. Jekyll rooms in elaborate Gothic style with complex leaded glazing, 4-centred doorways with carved linenfold doors. One Jekyll cast iron fireplace (probably late C19) in abstract style.
Listing NGR: TG0399816011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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