NHER 3129 (Monument record) - Wood Dalling Hall, Hall Road

1582; very interesting building with ornate turrets and access rooms to chimneys.
In bad condition, unoccupied at time of visit. Listed grade II (S1). Site of cross removed to site NHER 7362?.

Building since restored.
Ordnance Survey aerial photographs show possible garden features to west.

Jnauary 1952. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description:
Country house, now restaurant and public house. Late 16th century. Red brick, steeply- pitched plaintiled roofs. Two storeys and attics, L-shaped plan. Main facade to east: three gables with polygonal angle-shafts and corbels all with decorated terracotta finials. Ground floor and first floor windows of six lights with renewed hollow-chamfer mullions and transoms. Windows set in chamfered reveals with moulded brick dripmoulds. Attic 3-light wooden case- ments with hollow-chamfer mullions and transoms. Roll-moulded gable parapet copings, diagonally-set corbel at gable peak with octagonal finial with moulded cap. Moulded brick string courses at floor levels. 2-storey porch off-centre to north, similarly detailed; 4-centred entrance arch of moulded brick with decorated spandrels below square dripmould. Original entrance door and frame in east wall. North gable has large partly-external stack with twin decorated terracotta shafts with moulded caps and bases. Three later wooden casements in south gable. Large external stack to south-west, the upper section with four octagonal shafts rebuilt 20th century, flanked by polygonal stair turret with embattled parapet. 3-light lower casement with leaded glazing. External stack on south wall of rear range with corbelled and crow- stepped parapet, four shafts rebuilt on original moulded bases. Angle link- block with stepped gable with pinnacle base. Attic dormer with crow-stepped gable moulded brick corbels with stuccoed octagonal finials. West gable much rebuilt 20th century including large external stack with four linked shafts. Pantiled lean-to's in angle, one with castellated parapet. North wall has 3, 4 and 5-light wooden mullioned windows, attic dormer with crow-stepped gable, openings much altered. Attached coped red brick garden wall at south-east corner.
Information from (S1).

For full details see report (S2), architects plans (S3), photographs (S4), press cuttings (S5) to (S9) and sales brochure (S10) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 10 January 1995.