Wissett Hall

Wissett Hall is a house with an early 17th century core that has been enlarged in the late Victorian period by Herbert Groom. The building features a timber frame encased in red brick, primarily from the 19th century, with some sections made of Tudor brick. The central range of the house is jettied and has tile-hung upper floors, topped with hipped roofs covered in plain tiles. It has two storeys and a complex layout.

The house is adorned with eight chimney stacks, some of which are internal while others are externally positioned on the side walls, showcasing various traditional styles. Three of the stacks are on high shaped bases with octagonal shafts and spurred caps, while the others have square shafts, some set diagonally, with corbelled caps.

The windows include various four- and five-light casements, featuring arched heads and leaded panes arranged in intersecting hexagons and diamonds. Some ground-floor windows have transoms, and there is a square bay window. A two-storey projecting porch has a five-light upper window and a small two-light diamond-leaded fixed window on each side of the doorway. The doorway itself is framed by a wide segmental arch with a triangular pediment and a dentil cornice above, which continues as a hood-mould over the windows. The door is ledged and battened, with two leaves and applied pilaster strips.

Attached to the north side of the house is a small two-storey circular tower built in the early 20th century by Louis Sarel. This tower features a conical plain tiled roof topped with a square open belfry that holds one bell. Both storeys of the tower have single-light fixed windows with diamond-leaded panes. Inside, the early 20th-century timbered and panelled interior reveals two bays of the original 17th-century house, with plain exposed ceiling joists visible. The ground-floor windows in the porch and the dentil details are likely also by Sarel.