Listed Building: MULBERRY HALL (277330)

M 04 SE BURSTALL THE STREET 3/2 Mulberry Hall (formerly listed as White 22.2.55 House) - II House. Circa 1500, altered and extended, probably reduced. Timber-framed, rendered on brick plinth, rear ranges in brick, plain tile roofs, hipped to right. Complex plan, formerly hall with through passage, projecting wing with stair to rear of parlour, service ranges to rear to right, late C18 rear wing between. Asymmetrical facade of 2 storeys and four 3-light timber cross casements. Door of 6 raised panels beneath rectangular overlight and small flat canopy. Central first floor blocked window. Internal brick stacks, that to left, late C16, set forward of ridge with inserted, probably earlier C16 stone or terracotta plaque. Probably part of a frieze, it may be associated with the arms of Henry VIII inserted above bressummer. Divided into panels, one with foliage and flower, fragment of adjoining panel with two balusters. Further internal stack in hipped roof extension to right, and to C18 wing. Left hand return, 4 panel door, the lower two with blank Gothic tracery, the upper 2 glazed with pointed heads. First floor 2-light casement. Said to be blocked fireplace suggesting former continuation of building to left. Rear, added late C16, timber-framed, gabled 2 storey bay containing stair, probably introduced. C20 ground floor windows. First floor 2 and 3-light casements. Circa 1800 wing in brick in Flemish bond. Sashes with glazing bars, that to ground floor with segmental arch. Rear of main range has one exposed and one blocked, first floor 4-light hollow chamfered mullion window. Interior: Vestigial cross passage, the hall partly open to first floor ceiling. Ground floor spinal beam with simple run-out stop. Stairs, closed moulded string, turned balusters, moulded rails, square newels with pierced obelisk finials, brought from Diss, 1970's. Roll moulded spinal beam to ceiling above hall. Parlour: Massive fireplace with hollow chamfered stone jambs with roll moulded arrises, 4 centre arched alcoves within inglenook chamfered bressummer. Above, stone or terracotta Arms of Henry VIII with fragment of panel to left, possibly associated with that on the stack above. The jambs, arms and panel presumably incorporated in the stack late C16 and deriving from a former royal building. Simple 3" chamfered cross beams to ceiling. Newel stair, with turned balusters, urn finial on square newel. First floor left hand room panelled with various fragments, of early and later work, some with raised mouldings and mitred corners. Blocked leaded casement to rear of main range. Roof not inspected but said to be side purlin roof reusing timbers including crown post, split and used as rafters. House said to. have belonged to the estate of Cardinal Wolsey. Listing NGR: TM0993844506