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Record Details

NHER Number:9059
Type of record:Building
Name:Breckles or Breccles Hall

Summary

This great house and manor are of exceptional importance. The Elizabethan brick house was built in 1583. It was carefully repaired in around 1900 by Detmar Blow and extended by Lutyens in around 1908. The house is more than one room deep, which is unusual for an Elizabethan property. However, it is of national importance due to the almost complete survival of woodwork and metalwork. The house has a genuine priest hole, which was reported as early as 1593. The fine front garden has embattled walls and an archway, although the present planting arrangements date to the 19th and 20th centuries.

Images

  • Breckles Hall, Stow Bedon. © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:TL 9615 9450
Map Sheet:TL99SE
Parish:STOW BEDON, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

Great house and manor of exceptional importance; present building 1583, repaired by Blow about 1900 and extended by Lutyens about 1908.
Listed grade I because 'national importance of almost complete survival of woodwork and metalwork'.
Priest hole noted in legend but not found.
See brief description in file.
See (S1) and (S2).
E. Rose (NAU) 4 January 1990.

The priest holes however were reported as early as 1593. See appendix to report in file.
E. Rose (NLA) 10 February 2004.

February 2009.
Planning application received concerning repairs to chimenys, roofs, walls and linen store floor.
See (S3) and (S4)
H. White (NLA), 3 April 2009

(S5) Copies of floor plans from 1910 sale particulars added to secondary file.
A. Yardy (HES), 20 September 2012.

Monument Types

  • GARDEN WALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • GREAT HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • MOAT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • POND (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SAW PIT (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • Listed Building
  • Listed Building
  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Aerial Photograph: TL9594 D, E; TL9694 K-M,N,P-U,V-X,Y-AF.
---Record Card: Ordnance Survey Staff. 1933-1979?. Ordnance Survey Record Cards. TL 99 SE 3 [3]; TL 99 SE 16 [2].
---Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
---Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. pp 215-216; Pl 70.
---Article in Serial: 1909. Breccles Hall. - I. Norfolk.. Country Life. 13 November, p10.
---Article in Serial: 1909. Breccles Hall. - II. Norfolk.. Country Life. 20 November, p1.
---Article in Serial: Penny Churchill. 2003. Secrets and high society at Breccless Hall.. Country Life. 10 July, p1.
---Article in Serial: G. C. Taylor. 1938. The garden at Breccles Hall, Norfolk.. 19th February, p5.
---Article in Serial: J. Wentworth Day. 1961. Ghosts of the lonely Breckland.. Country Life. 7 December, p1.
---Publication: Willins, E.P. (ed. By Thos. Garratt). 1890. Some Old Halls and Manor Houses in the County of Norfolk.. Pl 14, Pl 15, Pl 40.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
---Record Card: Clarke, R. R. and NCM Staff. 1933-1973. Norwich Castle Museum Record Card - Post-Medieval. Stow Bedon.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2003. Spanish 'Armada' chairs at auction. 3 October.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2003. Elizabethan manor steeped in history. 11 July.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1994. [Photograph of Breckles Hall]. 19 September.
---Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1993. Open day at Jeckyll garden. 3 July.
---Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service.
<S1>Monograph: Pevsner, N. 1962. North-West and South Norfolk. The Buildings of England. 1st Edition. p 96.
<S2>Map: Bryant, A.. 1826. Bryant's Map of Norfolk.
<S3>Designation: Listed Building Consent.
<S4>Unpublished Document: Hugh Ferrier Chartered Surveyours. 2009. Design and Access Statement, Breckles Hall..
<S5>Sale Particulars: Knight Frank & Rutley. 1910. Breccles Hall, Attleboro, Norfolk, 1910.

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