Record Details
| NHER Number: | 7694 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Sloley Hall |
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Summary
A polite and restrained two storey grey brick house of 1815, built for Benjamin Cubitt to a design by his brother-in-law the Reverend James Gunn, a local amateur architect. The east façade has five window bays and a central Classical porch. To the north is a lower two storey service wing.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2947 2338 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG22SE |
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| Parish: | SLOLEY, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January 1978. Visited.
According to (S1), of 1815, from bricks made on the estate.
It is of white brick, five bays, two storeys with central Classical porch.
To the north, a wing with hipped roof, of two bays, two storeys.
E. Rose (NAU), 19 January 1978.
See architects description (1996) (S2), historical survey of hall and park (S3) by [1], in file.
In addition to the history in the file, owner in 1998 (when hall was under restoration) states that it has a core of red bricks; it was occupied the day before the Battle of Waterloo (in the same year as the Enclosure) and that he retains all the documents relating to it. Listed (S4).
A good red brick ?stable building to the north has been converted.
The bricks are said to have been made at 'Dye's Hole' a quarter of a mile to the east but the exact location has not been established.
E. Rose (NLA), 17 July 1998.
Monument Types
- GREAT HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1995. TG 2923A - B. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 665. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Cozens-Hardy, B. 1961. Some Norfolk Halls. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXXII pp 163-208. p 200. |
| <S2> | Unpublished Report: 1996. The Hall Stoley. Report. |
| <S3> | Unpublished Contractor Report: Williamson, T. 1996. Sloley Estate, Norfolk. Heritage Landscape Management Plan. Volume 2. History. University of East Anglia. |
| <S4> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1049170. |
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