The Old Hall

TG 00 NE BARNHAM BROOM HONINGHAM ROAD (west side) 3/9 The Old Hall

2.10.51 I

Former manor house. C16 and C17 with some late C18 refurbishment. Diaper patterned brickwork with a pantiled roof. Long rectangle in plan with an off-centre 3-storey porch and stair outshut directly opposite to rear. 2-storeys with attic. C16 porch with polygonal angle turrets topped with obelisk finials. 4-centred moulded archway with a rectangular hood-moulded window above with a 3-light C18 mullioned and transomed frame. 2-light arched mullioned window at second floor. Crow-stepped gable and canted stair-turret to side. C16 front door with linenfold panelling and carved spandrels to frame,, To south of porch a blocked ogee- and roll-moulded 4-light wooden mullioned window partially obscured by porch; a large early C16 - opening with a 4-centred arch and hood-mould; 4 late C18 mullioned and transomed windows the 2 to south with arched heads in 'gothick' style; in centre 2 C20 mullioned windows in position of former canted bay. To north of porch 3 early C17 openings with painted moulded brick pediments on pul- vinated friezes with 2 flat-topped 3-light dormers and crow-stepped gables to front only. Gable-end stacks with polygonal chimneys; 2 axial stacks; to south rectangular with a cusped blind arcade to base, to north circular. Several early C17 ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows to rear and north gable-end. 3 3-light flat-topped dormers. Fine C16 tight ribbon- moulded beams in hall. Dining room fireplace with a 4-centred arched wooden lintel with remains of similar ribbon moulding in spandrels. Late C18 barrel vaulted passageways, 'gothick' panelled doors and ribbed geometric plaster ceilings. Early C17 winding stair with oak treads and risers around a closed timber-framed well. 2 door frames with 4-centred heads and carved spandrels. Several early C17 panelled doors. Very fine plaster ceiling and frieze dated 1614 in centre of north frieze; large central pendant with a complex ribbed geometric framework radiating from it; panels filled with bosses and varied vegetal and geometric motifs; busy inhabited-scroll frieze. Remains of strapwork frieze in adjoining room. C17 arched fireplace in attic with a strapwork design above. C17 butt-purlin and collar roof to north with remains of an earlier clasped purlin with reduced principals type to south. M.Girouard, "Barnham Broom Hall, Norfolk", Country Life, CXLI, 1967, pp 402-5.

Listing NGR: TG0814407998