Wiveton Hall

TG 04 SW WIVETON

2/17 Wiveton Hall 30:11:51 _ II*

House: Dated 1653 on doorway in Hall; 1908 on gable of extension by Sir Guy Dawber. Galleted flint with brick dressings, some dressings rendered. Smut pantile roof. H-shaped mid C17 plan. East facade of 7 bays, 2 storeys and attic. All windows in openings with brick reveals and moulded brick pediments. Projecting gabled left hand wing of 2 bays with C18 sash windows with glazing bars. Moulded brick platbands between ground and first floors, first and attic floors, which continue across facade. Attic light with mullion and transom of early C20. Shaped gable with ogee top and finial roundel to gable; remainder of this facade has rendered brick dressings and C19 cross-casements. Central porch with semicircular-headed archway with keystone; band above with diamond decoration and pediment over. Pedimented window above. Flat roof. Above and behind a large pedimented window probably of C19. Right hand 2 bays gabled. 2 pedimented windows to ground and first floors; pedimented window to gable with roundel over. Gable end stacks each with 3 C19 octagonal shafts. Similar arrangement of bays to rear, east, elevation. Central external stack in English bond; 3 C19 octagonal shafts. C17 doorway to left. Early C20 brick mullion and transomed window to right with moulded brick pediment, restored c1960. To either side of stack to first floor is a timber cross-casement of early C20 in C17 pedimented opening. Projecting right 2 bays have 5 staggered C19 cross-casements to stairwell in pedimented openings. Shaped gable with roundel. Gable return has 2 blind pedimented openings. 2 projecting left hand bays have 2 early C20 brick mullion and transom windows in C17 pedimented openings. Similar to gable return. 2 rendered pedimented Cl9 casements to first floor; gable return has C17 blind pedimented opening. Pedimented C19 casement to attic again with roundel over and shaped gable. Attached to the north of this C17 building and running east is a 6 bay, 2 storey range by Sir Guy Dawber in Jacobean style with 2 storey gabled bay window to fourth bay. South front, now with main entrance, has irregular fenestration. Early C20 door with linen-fold panelling; early C20 moulded brick door surround. To left, stack in English bond brick corbels-out at first floor level. Small window above door of 2 blind lights with rendered mullion and reveals; similar window above this. To right of door and set back, the walling is of rubble with a rough render. To ground floor one C20 single light window with transom and one C20 brick mullion and transomed window under pediment. Similar window to first floor without pediment.

Listing NGR: TG0392444042