Sheringham Hall is a Grade II* listed building which stands in the grounds of Sheringham Park which is in the care of the National Trust. The house is close to the village of Upper Sheringham in the English County of Norfolk in the United Kingdom. The hall was built on the instructions of Abbot and Charlotte Upcher who engaged the architect and landscape designer Humphry Repton and his son John Adey Repton to build the house and to present designs for the surrounding parklands. Humphry worked on the landscape and John designed the hall. The house is privately owned is not open to the public but can be viewed from the surrounding parkland.
Description
The main body of the house is two storeys and has a low pitched slate roof. To the south facing facade there is a bay to each side with a portico with four pairs Tuscan columns creating a veranda. This leads out onto terrace which runs right across the front of the south elevation. There is a porch over the main door on the western façade which is also supported by two pairs of Tuscan columns. Above is a pediment embellished with the Upcher crest of a unicorn surrounded by five ostrich feathers. Inside the house on the ground floor there are five rooms. The three rooms on the south front of the building start with a parlour to the south west corner, a dining room to the centre and a living room and library to the south east corner which takes up the whole of the east side of the house. Of this room there is a recessed breakfast room at right angle to the eastern elevation. At the back of the house there is a study to the north west corner which leads off from the main door hallway. Next to the study is the service staircase down to the cellar and next to that is the main stairwell of a main corridor which runs through the center of the house linking the main hall, dining room, stairwell and living room at the eastern end. To the north and west attached to the main body of the house there is a service wing. The main staircase is a curved cantilevered stair with stone treads with shaped soffits. The balustrade sits on the inner open stringer and is fabricated from cast iron with a hexagonal pattern. The handrail is made from hand carved wreathed mahogany with mother of pearl and ebony inlay at the turned newel post.
Other estate buildings
The stable block and coachman's house
Set back and to the west of the hall stands the stable block and coachman's house which were also designed by John Adey Repton. This building is also a Grade II listed building. The brick built building is faced with pebble flintwork with gault brick quoining. The building is topped with a Welsh slate roof which has a central wooden cupola bell turret faced with a clock. This is topped with a gilded arrow weathervane. In front of the block is enclosed courtyard with brick walls.
Ivy Lodge
At the southern main entrance to the estate the gatehouse is called Ivy Lodge and was designed in the Cottage orné style by the Repton's. This lodge is also a Grade II listed building. The lodge is built over two storeys with the ground floor faced in Norfolk red bricks. The second floor is faced in pebble dashed render with some parts of render panels between black timber vertical stud posts. The south east corner of the lodge has a circular forward facing wing. The roof is now finished in plain red tiles and has wide overhanging eaves with finial to the top of the turreted roof. The lodge extensively renovated in 1905 when the thatched roof was replaced with the tiled roof.
Lodge cottage
The hall and estate's east entrance from the nearby village of Upper Sheringham passes by another entrance lodge simply known as Lodge cottage. It built over two storeys and is built from brick faced with pebble flint work with Norfolk red brick quoining. The south elevation has a projecting bay with a hip roof with the upper storey clad in dark shiplap timber planking. The house has a Norfolk pantile roof.
West Lodge
The West Lodge gatehouse is situated just of the A149 coast road between Sheringham and Weybourne. It is on the north-west corner of Oak Wood which is the estates area of woodland on the hill north of the Hall. This gatehouse is no longer part of the estate and the drive which ran to the hall from here no longer connected to the estate or hall. The building is a two-storey flint and tile house with a pantile roof and has been a private residence for many years.