Sheringham Hall

Sheringham Hall
The south elevation
General information
Type	Historic house
Location	Upper Sheringham
Address	Sheringham Hall, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk, NR26 8TB
Town or city	Sheringham
Country	England
Coordinates	52°56′09″N 1°10′25″E / 52.9359°N 1.1736°E / 52.9359; 1.1736
Construction started	July 1813
Completed	1817
Client	Abbot and Charlotte Upcher
Technical details
Structural system	Gault-brick house with Welsh slate roof
Design and construction
Architect	John Adey Repton (hall), Humphrey Repton (landscape)
Website
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated	38 September 1987
Reference no.	224646

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.

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.