NHER 6764 (Monument record) - Site of Thorpe Hall

Approximate site of Thorpe Hall, judged from Faden's map of 1797 (S1).
Cottages here have facade of 17th or early 18th century brickwork with diaper patterning and traces of blocked windows, into which 18th century doors and windows have been inserted. Rest of building reconstructed. Portion of garden wall running south is also 17th century and has been much larger. Perhaps all once part of Hall outbuildings.
Occupants say they believed the hall stood further east, but this would seem to be too near church.
Land around cottages totally overgrown.
Visited E. Rose (NAU), 9 October 1978.

1988.
Cottages on site listed Grade II as The Limes (S2).
Notes in addition in left hand gable, blocked lights on two levels and small blocked stair light.
E. Rose (NAU), 9 August 1989.

Plans in file (S3).

Wall forming north side of churchyard extension cleared of ivy in 2002. Now forms revetment to land to north; about 1.5m high on south. Base of flint, upper part of eroded brickwork. West end is polygonal pier now buried in alter north-south wall. Clearly a 17th century garden or forecourt wall.
E. Rose (NLA), 16 January 2002.

March 2004, Norfolk NMP
Some of the cropmarks described below were previously recorded as NHER 36485. NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 2441 3548 to TG 2438 3545.

A series of ditches and banks, principally linear and rectilinear in plan, and a platform are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs (S4-5), centred at TG 2438 3545. Their morphology and location within an area identified as the site of Thorpe Hall, described above, suggests that they are contemporary with the Hall, and are likely to be medieval to post-medieval garden or other landscaping features associated with the Hall and its outbuildings.

Two pairs of near parallel banks and ditches, or perhaps terraces, visible from TG 2437 3547 to TG 2440 3537 as earthworks on 1946 aerial photographs (S5), appear to form the western boundary of an enclosure. The easternmost of these two ditches, together with two parallel ditches visible as cropmarks on 1996 oblique aerial photographs (S4), form the north side of this postulated enclosure. Within this a number of ditches and a rectangular platform measuring at least 15m long and 13m wide are apparent. A number of ditches identified to the south-west (centred at TG 2430 3539) appear to form part of the same pattern of enclosure.
See (S4-5).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 March 2004