Wood Hall And Attached Garden Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Wood Hall And Attached Garden Wall
- WRENN ID
- pale-belfry-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wood Hall is a house dating back to the 17th century, built on an older core, with a mid-19th century crosswing added to the left for Reverend W.W. Andrew. The house is constructed of brick, with plain tiles and some pantiles. It has three bays, a chimney bay, and two storeys with an attic. The principal facade faces south, with crowstepped gables on the right side. A two-story porch with crowstepped gables sits between the first and second bays.
The mid-19th century crosswing on the left also features crowstepped gables. A stack between the second and third bays features four linked hexagonal shafts and an end cross stack. A wood modillion cornice runs along the eaves. The first bay has a three-light transomed window on the ground floor with leaded lights, and a 19th-century wood oriel casement above. A gabled dormer window in the attic has a three-light casement with 17th-century latches and pintle hinges. The porch is constructed with an irregular bond of bricks and has a pointed brick arch leading to a rear panelled door; the first floor of the porch has a renewed cross window under a flat arch. Flush tripartite sashes with glazing bars and flat arches are found on the ground floor of the second bay and the ground floor of the third bay. The first floor of the second bay has an early 20th-century oriel casement.
The 19th-century crosswing to the left has a crowstepped gable with a stone finial and rubbed brick kneelers, with ground and first floor openings featuring chamfered brick surrounds, square hoodmoulds, and sashes with glazing bars. The attic window is Gothic with a hood mould and glazing bars. The return of the crosswing to the left has three bays, matching the principal facade, with a shaped gable, stone finial, shaped kneelers, a full-height canted bay with a parapet, a storey-height ground floor opening, and a Venetian window in the attic. An internal stack is located to the left gable, with a cross stack in the centre, both having castellated caps to the shafts.
The right return of the main range is in English bond, with a large 19th-century four-light Gothick bay window with an embattled parapet on the ground floor. The first floor has a blocked opening with quoined jambs, the pediment of which has been removed, now replaced with a 19th-century cross window. A blank basket-headed opening is in the attic. The rear of the house has pantiles and various additions, including a three-story stair turret in the angle of the crosswing and main range, topped with a cupola bell turret with a wind vane.
Inside, there are Gothick arches of a rendered brick screen to the left of the doorway. Fragments of 17th and Medieval glass are in the window of the first bay. Bay 2 features two 16th-century moulded tie beams. A Gothick three-light opening provides access to the rear of bays 1 and 2. A bressumer end is visible where a stack has been enclosed, as is a patera and reeded surround to the fireplace in bay 2. A massive moulded doorcase is found in bay 3. The first floor of bay 2 features a narrow grate with Prince of Wales feathers. The roof has clasped purlins and collars, with a new roof constructed over the original.
Attached to the northeast angle is a 17th-century garden wall in English bond with a 19th-century embattled parapet. A large inserted archway leads to a courtyard, and the wall to the right is ramped with a polygonal end buttress.
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