Description
Situated in the heart of Norfolk, Bylaugh Hall stood for fifty years as an imposing collapsing roofless ruin, overgrown, unloved and forgotten by all except those who stumbled across it by chance. The twenty-first century has seen its renaissance with the house re-roofed and restored to a state which many would have thought impossible and with the outbuildings repaired and repurposed.
When constructed in the mid eighteen-hundreds it was one of Norfolk’s finest stately homes, though unwanted by the family who had to be forced to build it. In time, a family home for just a few decades, then let, and during the first world war put up for sale with its estate in a notable 140 lot auction. The aftermath of the second world war saw its demise, stripped out and deroofed until a family with a vision came upon it and started the ‘impossible’.
This book is a chronological record of the house drawn from papers held by the Norfolk Record Office and a range of printed and manuscript works held in the author’s collection. It is well illustrated with photographs, plans and drawings from contemporary and modern sources, and the appendices include extensive extracts and photographs from the 1917 auction sales catalogue.
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