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Crimplesham Hall is a Grade II Listed manor house in Crimplesham, Norfolk, England. Although records indicate a house existed at the site as far back as 1040, the current house was completed in 1881 and designed by Alfred Waterhouse. ==History==
In 1881 John Grant Morris 〔White's Directory 1883〕 paid for a new hall to be built and gave it to his daughter as a wedding present. She married a local landowner Sir Alfred Bagge RN, second son of Sir W Bagge MP for West Norfolk, between 1837–1859 and 1865 - 1881. The new hall, a 10-bedroom mansion of white brick structure set in a wooded park, was designed in 1880 by Alfred Waterhouse (1830–1905) and it was erected in 1881. The first payment was on 30 July 1880, and the last payment on 17 November 1881. The payments totalled £6,994 and 15 Shillings. £5,994 and 15 Shillings being the construction costs and £1000 for the finishings.〔Original documents in possession of the current owners〕 The finishings were from Maples in London 〔Markings on woodwork and fittings〕 and were of very high quality, particularly the fine doors and other woodwork of matched Canadian Pine. The house design was very modern for the time, with warm air ducted central heating to all the rooms, its own electricity generator in the stable block, and its own sewerage system and water supply. In the garden are an artificial lake and a fine Victorian folly〔Follies, a National Trust Guide 1986〕 in the form of a Gothic Chapel, the materials of which are thought to have come from the ruins of West Dereham Abbey or a building reclaim yard. It may predate the new house. Waterhouse had previously built for Morris Allerton Priory, near Liverpool; he later built also a villa near Cannes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crimplesham Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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