Blue Hall

EAST GARTON B1242 TA 23 NE (south side) 4/33 Blue Hall 16.12.66 II* House. c1700. Orange brick in irregular bond, pantiled roof. Originally 3 storeys, 5 bays, 2:1:2, reduced to 2 storeys, 5 bays in early C19. L-shaped plan. Balanced main elevation: C20 boarded door flanked by C20 5-light casements. First-floor band which breaks forward over the former positions of the original windows. 2-light cross-mullion window over door with 4-light casements to right and left. Axial stack with offsets and bands to main range, external end stack to rear wing, hipped roofs. Interior: closed-string framed newel stair with heavy turned balusters and moulded handrail: newels with half-balusters, pendants, and finials. Bolection-moulded dado. (This stair rises through 3 floors to the present low attics.) Room to the right of the stair is entirely lined with bolection-moulded panelling including overdoor panels and a dado. Bolection-moulded fireplace and overmantel; contemporary built-in corner cupboard. The room above is similarly panelled and also incorporates a bolection-moulded fireplace with overmantel. (The space between the panelling and the unplastered brickwork behind it seems to have been entirely filled with oats chaff.) All the principal doors, and most of the cupboard doors, are of 2 bolection-moulded panels and hang on their original hinges. Several are still equipped with box-locks. The upper floors retain most of their original wide floorboards. This house was moated; part of the moat survives as a duck-pond to the west.

Listing NGR: TA2617335593