Oxburgh Hall
Oxburgh Hall, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342586
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Oxburgh Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Oxburgh Hall, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342586
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Oxburgh Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Oxburgh Hall, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
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:
- Oxburgh Hall, Oxborough, PE33 9PS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oxborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 74256 01227
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 January 2025 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TF 7401
13/24
OXBOROUGH
Oxburgh Hall
9.7.51
GV
I
Fortified Country House. Licence to crenellate 1482; extensive refurbishment during the late C18 and C19 with the involvement of J.C. Buckler and Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Brick with some stone dressings. Pantile roofs. Square moated site of four wings around a courtyard. The main fabric of the north, the west and half the east wings is C15. The single storeyed south wing is of 1865 with an adjoining C18 section to the west and a mainly early C19 tower to the east. Mainly two storeys with attics. North facade. Central three-storey C15 gatehouse with a four-centred vaulted archway flanked by polygonal turrets decorated with moulded brick arched corbel tables. Western turret houses winding stair with small quatrefoil windows. Upper storeys of eastern turret have single light arched windows with rectangular hood moulds. Centre bay with a four-light stone first floor window with arched transoms and brick and stone relieving arches. Similar three-light second floor window just beneath a four-centred machicolation. Stepped crenellations. Early C18 three-bay bridge with crenellated parapet crosses the moat. Flanking facades with C19 Gothic fenestration, moulded brick arched corbel tables and crenellated parapets. Two crow-stepped attic gables with pairs of Cosseyware chimney shafts. East facade. Northern half C15. Southern half C18 and C19 including the four-storey tower to south west corner. One C18 semicircular-headed sash window with glazing bars. Otherwise C19 Gothic including a stone-dressed two-storey canted bay with carving and two stone-dressed oriels. Arched corbel table. Two crow-stepped attic gables with single Cosseyware chimney shafts, gabled north wing and Two gabled dormers. Fabric of west facade almost entirely C15 with Fenestration and decoration similar to that of east facade.
Interior. Adequately described in Oxburgh Hall, National Trust, 1982, except for the outstanding C15 roofs over the northern half of the east wing and over the complete west wing. Fully moulded arch braced roofs with king posts rising from collars to braced ridge beam. Furbishment of east wing attributable to J.C. Buckler.
H.A. Tipping, "Oxburgh hall", Country Life, 66, 1929, pp. 194-202, pp.224-32.
Listing NGR: TF7425601227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220927
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxburgh Hall, (1982)
Country Life in 14 December, (1929), 194-202
Country Life in 14 December, (1929), 224-232
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 29 Norfolk,
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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