Old Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Old Hall
- WRENN ID
- pitched-cobble-laurel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall is a former farmhouse dating from around 1600 and later. The building features a brick ground floor, which was re-faced with brick in the 19th century, and a timber-framed upper floor. It has a through-passage plan and stands two storeys high with an attic. The off-centre 17th-century gabled porch has a pedimented arched entrance and a blocked window above. The entrance includes a very fine fielded board door with studs and a loop handle, set within a 4-centred arched frame with carved spandrels.
On the ground floor, there are three windows; the central window was originally a five-light window with roll-moulded and hollow chamfered mullions and a transom, although two of the mullions have been removed to fit casements. The north window has two lights without a transom, while the south window is a three-light Victorian imitation with ovolo-moulding. The first floor features three later 20th-century three-light casement windows. A roll-moulded bressumer is present, and some original brickwork can be seen on the south gable end. The gables are stepped and have late 20th-century cast cement crow steps.
There is a rear door with cover strips, studs, and a moulded frame, along with an off-centre axial stack that has four octagonal shafts and a later north gable-end stack with a single 19th-century octagonal shaft. The building has undergone later additions to the side and rear.
Inside, the hall features deep mouldings on the bridging joist, common joists, and cornice. The original first-floor fireplace has a 4-centred arch and incised stucco decoration, now reduced to accommodate a fine late 18th-century duck's nest grate. Several original doorways have 4-centred arches with their spandrels highlighted by inverted fielding. The two principal first-floor rooms were originally open to an exceptional crown post roof of seven bays, with short crown posts rising from cambered collars, solid arch braces to the collar purlin only, and a set of butt-purlins. The solar was originally located only at the northern end. The site is moated.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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