Gateley Hall
GATELEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342487
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gateley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GATELEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342487
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Gateley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATELEY HALL
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:
- GATELEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gateley
- National Grid Reference:
- TF9585923910
Details
TF 92 SE
5/35
GATELEY
Gateley Hall
4.12.51
GV I
Country House. Datestone on right hand gable of south front recorded as
reading "Built by Elizabeth Segrave 12 of (illegible) 1726", now invisible
from ground. Rear pile probably C1?. Mid and late C18 improvements.
Brick partly limewashed, flint in earlier block and black and red pantiled roofs. Double pile plan. 2 storeys with attic and cellar. Symmetrical 5 bay facade of sash windows with narrow glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Chequer pattern brickwork of vitrified headers discernible despite remaining limewash. Doric doorcase probably of 1726 with fluted pilasters, triglyph frieze and pediment. Partly glazed 2-leaf door with Y-traceried rectangular fanlight. Platbands, plain parapet and 3 flat-headed dormers. Double curved gables with internal stacks to north and south. Large datestone and similarly shaped angled sundial on south gables. Irregular rear facade containing much C17 masonry and with various additions including a fine late C18 2-storeyed semi-circular bay with 6 sash windows with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. Some early sash windows with wide glazing bars elsewhere. Parapet and one flat-headed dormer.
Interior. 1726 half-turn-stair with landings. Turned attenuated vase balusters, shaped tread-ends and wide swept handrail. 3 rooms with raised and fielded panelling. Several raised and fielded panelled doors all retaining original locks and fittings. 2 fine doorcases at ground floor, in hall, Doric with fluted pilasters triglyph frieze and broken pediment, in Dining room with broken pediment and eared arachitrave. Improvements of c.1750 include several carved and moulded fireplaces and more importantly exceptional Rococo plasterwork in the hall. The overmantel has an idyllic rustic landscape showing shepherds and animals, houses, a church spire and boldly projecting trees; the whole within an elaborate frame and forming part of the whole chimneypiece with an elaborately moulded fireplace frieze and flanking recesses with semi-domes. Smaller landscape between 2 facade windows depicting an Antique ruin with broken columns and an obelisk. 3 figures:- of a man dressed in a toga, a shepherd with his sheep and a woman in a windswept dress holding her hat on. Very elaborate mirror on opposite wall consisting of many small glass facets surrounded by Rococo scrolls and flamboyant vegetation. Moulded ceiling compartments and bridging joists. Plaster eagle on ceiling of stair vestibule. More usual Rococo plaster ceilings in Dining room and stair well.
G. Nares, Country Life, September, 1954.
Grade I for exceptional quality and rarity of Rococo plasterwork.
Listing NGR: TF9585923910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220490
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in September, (1954)
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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