Porch Attached To East By Garden Walls To Ranworth Old Hall

The porch attached to the east by garden walls of Ranworth Old Hall is a Grade II* listed structure dating from the early 16th century. It served as the entrance porch to the principal wing of the manor house, which has since been demolished. The base of the garden walls may incorporate materials from the original manor house.

Constructed of diapered brick, the porch features a 19th-century pantile roof and is two storeys high with a square plan. The garden walls extend to the east and west, and the south side has polygonal angle buttresses. Above the first-floor window level, there are brick string courses and decorated terracotta bands featuring Tudor roses around the tops of the buttresses.

At the first-floor level, there are blocked brick Perpendicular windows with hollow chamfered mullions, four-centred arched heads, and wave-moulded reveals. Above these windows, there are brick hood moulds and four-centred arches crafted in wave-moulded brickwork. The porch also includes single light windows to the east and west, and two light windows on the south that contain terracotta panels in blocked brickwork and original saddle bars.

The south entrance, dating from the late 16th century, features quadrant moulded reveals on the inner arch and is set within a rectangular ogee moulded opening topped with a brick pediment. The porch currently has a lean-to roof with 19th-century brick parapet verges and a south wall. Inside, there are niches with basket arches spanning the east and west walls, along with two blocked niches featuring triangular stone heads on either side of the entrance. A 16th-century moulded oak door frame, likely from the demolished manor house, is also present. Additionally, a domed finial made of Barnack limestone, possibly belonging to the porch, stands in the grass to the south.