Wamil Hall

TL 67 SE MILDENHALL WAMIL

8/86 Wamil Hall (Formerly listed under 7.5.54 General - II

House, late C16, with truncations and alterations of c.1900 and c.1955, both following serious fires. Probably built for Sir Henry Warner (d.1617). From the south (garden) front:- 2 storeys, partly with attics. The range to left of clunch, formerly rendered, with limestone dressings; set-forward plinth of red brick with limestone dressings. Parapet gables with moulded limestone copings and ball finials on plinths. To right is a brick-nogged timber-framed service wing of 2 bays; to right again is a rendered extension probably of c.1900. Plaintiled roofs with C20 hipped plaintiled casement dormers. 3 axial C16 or C17 chimneys of red brick with square flues; moulded caps and bases, perhaps restored. The left-hand range has a number of limestone windows with moulded mullions and labels above. To left is the truncated walling of the destroyed central staircase block. The north entrance front has 6 C16 limestone mullioned windows and central entrance doorway with square moulded head and label above; boarded and battened original oak door. One room has full oak wainscotting and good fireplace surround, all of c.1900, but perhaps with fragments of earlier work; moulded 1st floor beams of C16.

Listing NGR: TL6955774403