NHER 2175 (Monument record) - Thursford Old Hall, The Old Coach House and Dovecote

Site of Hall.
Elizabethan, demolished 1919. Had Victorian additions. Wing of 1900 survives also outbuildings (one dated 1857). Dovecote, and foundations survive.
From (S1), (S2), (S3).

1983 Listing (S4) calls the Old Hall and says in fact a service wing, 16th century altered in 1857, and not 1900 as above.
1857 work for Scott-Chad family, two storey H-plan in High Victorian Jacobethan red brick and cement. Four bay west front; porch with Dutch gable. Gables with central stacks and windows each side; all visible work of 1857. Dovecote is mid 19th century red brick three storeys, circular plan, header bond; bullseye window on second storey; finial missing but nesting boxes survive.
Old stable court survives as 'Old Coach House' - basically 17th century but very much Victorianised. Stepped gables and stepped dormers; two moulded sound holes (presumably means owl holes) but stack is modern. Mid 19th century stable attached.
Barn with six bay windbraced roof, four tiebeams, stepped gables - east has gothic tracery in owlhole - carriage doors inserted in 19th century.
E. Rose (NAU), 26 June 1985.

1 August 1990. NAU aerial photography.
Demolished section of Old Hall visible as parchmarks.
D. Edwards (NLA).

Rev. Armstrong visited the building 8 August 1876 and stated that the 19th century work had been well blended with the original and there was a beautiful chapel (Diary).
E. Rose, 17 September 1997.

See newspaper article on dovecotes in file.
M. Horlock (NLA), 19 August 2002.

Copy of (S5) in file for NHER 8956 suggests the original building was by Robert Lyminge, builder of Blickling Hall, and notes rebuilding in 1820 as well as 1857.
E. Rose (NLA), 31 January 2005.