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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.
Cromer Hall is located to the south of the town in Hall Road. The original hall was destroyed by fire and was rebuilt in 1829 in a Gothic Revival style, by Norfolk architect William John Donthorne. Henry Baring, of the Baring banking family, acquired the estate around this time. Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer was born at
The town hall was then acquired by a property developer and let to the Co-op in 1991, before being restored with funding from English Heritage in 1994. [14] In the early 21st century, it was occupied by a firm of solicitors, [ 15 ] and, in September 2020, it re-opened as a shop known as "Harbord's Artisan Vintage Emporium".
Cromer Hall, Norfolk Henry Baring (18 January 1777 – 13 April 1848) was a British banker and politician. He was the third son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , the founder of the family banking firm that grew into Barings Bank .
He was a generous benefactor to Cromer in Norfolk where he had his country house, Cromer Hall: he paid for a lifeboat (named after him) [1] and donated land for a cemetery. He was a freemason , serving as a trustee of the Royal Masonic Institution and as provincial grand master of Norfolk.
The ornate carved brickwork was hand carved by a Mr Minns, [5] who had also been employed on the work designed by Skipper for Cromer Town Hall. [5] Between 1925 and 1932 the hotel came under the ownership of Albert Ernest Willins.
Listowel was the eldest son of William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel of Convamore House, Ballyhooly, County Cork, and Maria Augusta, widow of George Wyndham of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, and second daughter of Vice-Admiral William Lukin Windham of Felbrigg Hall.
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]