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Cromer Hall is a country house located one mile south of Cromer on Holt Road, [1] in the English county of Norfolk. [2] The present house was built in 1829 [ 3 ] by architect William Donthorne . The hall is a Grade II* listed building.
The site they selected was on the west side of Prince of Wales Road and the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Benjamin Bond-Cabbell of Cromer Hall on 3 January 1890. [3] The building was designed by George Skipper in the Queen Anne style, built in red brick with a stucco finish by Chapman and Son of Norwich and was completed later that year. [1 ...
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer was born at the hall in 1841. In 2010 the building was the home of the Cabbell Manners family. [29] In 1901, author Arthur Conan Doyle was a guest at the hall. After hearing the legend of the Black Shuck, a ghostly black dog, he is thought to have been inspired to write the classic novel The Hound of the ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Cromer Hall including adjoining ... and Associated Buildings at the Pleasaunce Overstrand: Loggia: 1897-1899: 15 ...
Skipper had an excellent reputation having designed Cromer Town Hall, the Grand Hotel and the Hotel Metropole (1893 now demolished) [9] in Tucker Street. The design for the new hotel incorporated the old building plus the neighbouring properties of Albert House and the Belle Vue Hotel. The building contractor was J. Smith of Norwich. The ...
It measures 240ft (73.2m) long, 68ft (20.7m) wide and 92ft (28m) high. The roof was originally supported by two rows of pillars but in 1399 Richard II wanted to make the hall more impressive by ...
After setting up his own business in 1879 he was commissioned to design the town hall at Cromer and, subsequently, several seaside hotels in the town. [4] Much of his best work, dating from around the beginning of the twentieth century, is in Norwich. At this time Skipper, along with his rival Edward Boardman dominated
Following the arrival of the railway into Cromer in 1877 (Cromer High station) and 1887 (Cromer Beach station), wealthy London lawyer, Benjamin Bond Cabble [4] of Cromer Hall proposed that land on the western outskirts of the town, be used to develop the town and attract wealthy holiday makers from the south east to Cromer. [4]