Listed Building: GREAT WELNETHAM HALL (404985)

TL 85 NE GT.WELNETHAM STANNINGFIELD ROAD 5/110 Gt. Welnetham Hall 14.7.55 II House; early C17, altered and extended C18. 2 storeys and attics; 5 window main range. Timber-framed and rendered with fan pargetting in large panels. Plaintiled roofs with dentil eaves; hipped plaintiled casement dormers; axial and gable chimneys of red brick. Late C18 or early C19 small pane sash windows. 6 fielded panelled entrance door with moulded architrave and flat leaded canopy on console brackets. Near-complete C17 oak wainscotting in hall and parlour; a frieze of carved cresting over the restored parlour fireplace. An original gabled staircase wing at rear, with large ovolo-moulded mullioned window at attic level. 1 1/2 storey service wing added to north end C18. Sir Richard Gipps, antiquarian, lived here (d.1708). The house stands on the moated site of the mediaeval manor house. Listing NGR: TL8805359206