Stowlangtoft Hall

TL 96 NE STOWLANGTOFT KILN LANE

2/126 Stowlangtoft Hall 15.11.54

GV II

Nursing home; built as a large country house. 1859, by H. Hakewill for Fuller Maitland Wilson. In the Italianate Style. Gault brick with dressings of limestone. Flat roofs behind parapets of limestone: open balustrading in sections with urn balusters. Internal chimneys of gault brick with moulded limestone cappings. The north entrance front is of two tall storeys: central block of 3 windows, deeply recessed (at 1st storey only) between wings of 2 windows. To left is the extensive service range: set forward, 3 storeys, 6 windows. A further lower service range of 2 storeys to left again. To left of the main block and set forward is a prominent 4-stage Italianate tower. Sashes with segmental heads of gauged brick and large panes. A central Doric portico porch of limestone with a pair of columns supporting a flat entablature and open balustrading: the entrance doorway has a pair of doors with 3 fielded panels, and above is a round-arched fanlight. The tower has at the lowest stage a coved niche, and above on two faces are carved coats of arms in limestone of the Wilson family. The next stage has an open balustraded balcony with Ionic columns in antis; the arch above has the. tympanum filled with terracotta tiles. Open balustraded parapets above a heavy moulded cornice. To the east end of the garden elevation is attached by a loggia, a 5-window garden house with a domed glass roof: small-pane sashes with segmental heads. Interior: In the large 2-storeyed entrance hall is a marble fireplace of early C18: reused from elsewhere and perhaps from the former Stowlangtoft Hall which stood further south until demolished in early C19. A plaster ceiling in the French roccoco style and another in the Adam manner.

Listing NGR: TL9621968930