Listed Building: GEDDING HALL WITH BRIDGE ATTACHED TO SOUTH SIDE OF GATEHOUSE (280816)

GEDDING DRINKSTONE ROAD TL 95 NE 3/63 Gedding Hall with bridge - attached to south side of Gatehouse 15.11.54 - II* Fragment of moated manor house; early C16, possibly for Sir Edward Chamberlain (d.1541). Major additions of 1897 for Arthur S. Wakerley Esq., Red brick, with crowstepped parapet gables to gatehouse. Plaintiled roofs: polygonal gable chimneys of red brick. Prominent early C16 gatehouse with a contemporary range to right. Attached corner tower and rear range both added 1897. Walls on east and south sides rise sheer from two arms of the moat. Gatehouse: 2 storeys and attics. Large 4-centred arched gateway with C19 recessed blocking containing a window. Flanking the gateway, a pair of 3- storey splayed bays with slender buttresses, and at 1st floor a cavetto- moulded band containing a frieze of motifs resembling ballflowers. Each bay has a gabled roof, possibly original, and on each side is a splayed garderobe cantilevered over the moat. 2-light mullioned brick windows, each light with a 4-centred arched head, the whole within a splayed square-headed recessed frame, and plastered to simulate ashlar work. Casements with leaded glazing (some windows are blocked and others have lost their plasterwork). At main chamber level at 1st storey, the windows continue around 3 faces of the bays. Over the gateway is a similar window of 4 lights and above it is a parapet. The range to right is probably contemporary: 2 storeys, 3 windows. Some C16 mullioned windows, but most replaced by larger c19 casements, A doorway at basement has external steps leading down to the moat. (An early c19 print shows two large parapeted gablets, one with a finial at the apex). The tower is of red brick with flat roof behind parapets. At mid-height is a diaper- pattern frieze and in large figures "18 REBUILT 97", all in gault brick. Mullioned windows, and a cupola roofed turret. Interior not examined. The gatehouse is approached by a C19 wooden bridge linking with a brick jetty at the outer bank of the moat: a low parapet on either side has terminal piers bearing ball finials. Listing NGR: TL9538758565