The Hall

The Hall, Mill Lane

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1304783
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1959
List Entry Name:
The Hall
Statutory Address:
The Hall, Mill Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1304783
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Mar-1984
List Entry Name:
The Hall
Statutory Address 1:
The Hall, Mill Lane

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
The Hall, Mill Lane

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Shotesham
National Grid Reference:
TM 22479 98802

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TM 29 NW
6/98

SHOTESHAM
HOTESHAM PARK
Mill Lane
The Hall

(Formerly listed as SHOTESHAM PARK The Hall, previously listed as The Hall and Stables)

26/11/59

GV
I

Mansion. From 1784 by Sir John Soane. Gault brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Square main block with lower service wings and courtyards to north. Two storeys, attic storey and cellars. South facade of seven bays with slightly advanced frontispiece of five bays with centre three bays further advanced and capped with pediment above attic storey. Bay rhythm (a,b,c,b, c,b,a) defined by broad Ionic pilasters supporting a plain stone frieze and modillion cornice. Venetian windows to ground floor of-bays 'b' with stone architrave and stone semicircular inner pediment enclosed by two orders of rubbed brick voussoirs. Bays 'c' with semicircular niches with rubbed brick semidomes. No windows to bays 'a'. Upper windows sashes with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Parapet.

West facade of seven bays of sash windows with basement windows visible and centre five bays recessed. Modillion cornice continued. East facade of five bays with centre three bays recessed and containing an engaged Ionic portico on four columns. Semicircular headed flanking windows within containing arches. Entrance hall (from south) with fine plaster ceiling: oval with guilloche border and cusped fan spandrels and rose. Main stair with cantilevered moulded stone treads and iron balusters with a simple floral motif contained within lozenges. Stair hall lit by large Venetian window with glazed outer arch. High quality plasterwork throughout. Some early C18 carved marble chimney-pieces probably from Wricklemarsh.

D.Watkin "Shotesham Park, Norfolk", Country Life, CXLII, 1967, pp312-316.]

Listing NGR: TM2247998802

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
226675
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 142, (1967), 312-316

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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