Great Welnetham Hall

Great Welnetham Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 18th century. It has two storeys and attics, featuring a main range with five windows. The structure is timber-framed and rendered, showcasing fan pargetting in large panels. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and have dentil eaves, along with hipped casement dormers also tiled. The axial and gable chimneys are made of red brick. The windows are small pane sash windows from the late 18th or early 19th century. The entrance door is a six-fielded panel design with a moulded architrave and a flat leaded canopy supported by console brackets. Inside, there is near-complete 17th-century oak wainscoting in the hall and parlour, along with a frieze of carved cresting above the restored fireplace in the parlour. At the rear, there is an original gabled staircase wing featuring a large ovolo-moulded mullioned window at the attic level. A one-and-a-half storey service wing was added to the north end in the 18th century. The house was once home to Sir Richard Gipps, an antiquarian, who died in 1708. It is situated on the moated site of a medieval manor house.