Kenninghall Place

Kenninghall Place is a service wing of the former Palace of the Dukes of Norfolk, the rest of which was destroyed around 1650, and is now used as a domestic residence. The wing dates to approximately 1505-1525, with subsequent alterations made at later periods. The construction is primarily brick, with internal timber partitioning and a plain tiled roof. The building is two storeys high with an attic, featuring polygonal corner shafts. These shafts are annulated at the first floor, with a bell moulding at the point where the shaft diameter reduces, although there is no shaft on the northeast corner.

The south front retains diaper brickwork on the west side and an 18th-century string course on the east side at first floor level. Otherwise, all the window openings and the two front doors date to the early 1980s. Remains of numerous doorways and 16th or 17th-century windows are visible, all now blocked. The roof is gabled and incorporates a 20th-century gabled dormer. Chimney stacks are situated to the right of the centre and at the internal east gable. The west wall retains much of its diaper brickwork. On the ground floor, there's a three-light arched brick window, situated beneath a square rebated hood that is truncated below the light heads to form a 20th-century door. A four-centred first-floor window opening contains a 19th-century casement window. A blocked 17th-century attic window and stepped gable are also present.

The north elevation has two western bays rendered and altered, with a 20th-century gabled outbuilding abutting the facade. On the ground floor of the east side, there are two 19th or 20th-century casement windows, alongside six blocked 16th-century window and door openings. The first floor retains five 16th-century windows of two or three lights, three of which feature brick mullions and arched intersecting heads within bowtell and casement jambs. The east gable wall is marked by blocked original openings.

The kitchen features cruciform bridging beams and cross joists. The bridging beams are moulded, with roll, nave, and hollow elements, each separated by a 90-degree nick. A doorway to the south has a chamfered rere arch. The lounge has a studded west wall with a sinking wall plate, a rebuilt fireplace with a bressummer and additional studwork below, plus bridging beams similar to those in the kitchen. Two rooms east of the stack have been combined into one, containing a fireplace with a bressummer, a plain chamfered bridging beam to the west of a relocated screen of studwork, and a moulded bridging beam similar to the kitchen to the east. An inserted staircase, located by the stack, leads to a first-floor passage from the lounge. A narrow passage, defined by timber studs and four-centred arches beside the north windows, was widened in the late 18th century. The north windows have interior roll mouldings. A west room features moulded cross joists similar to the kitchen and the remains of two three-light four-centred windows. Other bedrooms are substantially similar. The roof structure consists of plain queen post trusses with arched braces to canted collars, through purlins below, arched windbracing, chamfered principals, and a ridge piece. The common rafters were replaced in the 20th century.