Dersingham Hall

Dersingham Hall is a manor house dating from around 1600, with additions and details from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of stuccoed brick and carstone rubble, with a red and black glazed pantiled roof. The house has two storeys and attics, arranged in an "H" shape. The east, or entrance, front features two gabled returned wings and a central cross wing. This front has two ground floor and two first floor sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor windows are now exposed brick relieving arches. A central first-floor window has been blocked. The steeply pitched roof incorporates a cluster of semi-octagonal brick stacks, which have been stuccoed over.

The north returned gable of the north range has a 19th-century rectangular bay addition, rendered with cement, featuring a ground and first floor four-light plate glass casement window that returns to the north and south with single lights. It has a flat roof with a battlemented parapet. The south returned gable has an external stack supported by two cement-rendered buttress additions with open arches, one above the other, with set-offs, supporting two clustered semi-octagonal stacks.

The south return, facing the garden, has four 19th-century ground floor windows. A three-sided cement-rendered bay addition is present at the west, with three plate glass sashes. To the east, there’s a four-light casement. Centrally, a wooden-framed arched-headed Venetian window illuminates the half landing of a staircase, containing three sashes with glazing bars. Four 18th-century sashes with glazing bars are present at the first floor, with one central flat-roofed 18th-century dormer sash with glazing bars.

The west gable return has stuccoed quoins and a crow-stepped battlemented gable with three clustered semi-octagonal stacks. The north return of the north wing has two ground floor 18th-century sashes and one arched-headed 18th-century first floor sash with glazing bars, plus a stucco crow-stepped gable and end stack. To the west is an additional attached 18th-century wing, with three ground floor and three first floor sashes with glazing bars. Attached to the west is a single-storey wing, followed by a further single-storey carstone and brick-dressed wing with a two-centred arched entrance and three windows, and finally a two-storey hipped roof wing, which is included for group value.