Dunston Hall Hotel

Dunston Hall Hotel

The hotel
Norfolk
Hotel chain QHotels Group
General information
Location Dunston, Norfolk, South Norfolk, Norfolk, England
Address Ipswich Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR14 8PQ
Coordinates 52°34′15.92″N 1°16′55.39″E / 52.5710889°N 1.2820528°E / 52.5710889; 1.2820528
Opening Built in 1878
Technical details
Floor count 3 with Lifts
Design and construction
Developer J. C. Buckler and finished by Boardman
Other information
Number of rooms 169 en-suite bedrooms
Number of restaurants 2
Facilities Indoor swimming pool
18 hole golf course
Floodlit driving range
Football Pitch
Spa and Gym
Parking 500 spaces
Website

Hotel Website

Listed Building – Grade II
Designated 5 September 1975
Reference no. 224698[1]

Dunston Hall Hotel is a mock Elizabethan grade II listed building in the English village of Dunston, in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom. [2] The hotel is part of the QHotels group of hotels. The hotel has an AA four star rating.[3]

Location

The hotel is 4.8 miles (7.7 km) south of the city of Norwich and is located on the A140 Norwich to Ipswich road, just south of the Harford interchange with the A47[4]

History

The current Dunston Hall was built for Robert Kellett Longe.[5] Construction began in 1859 to the designs of the architect John Chessell Buckler and was completed by Edward Boardman in 1878.[6] It occupies the site of an older house, an early 19th-century copy of Blickling Hall, although records show that there were also two previous post-medieval halls which stood slightly to the north and east on the site of the present Hall Farm.[6]

The house was bought by Keith Shaw, a local businessman, in 1991, and opened as a hotel in 1993.[5]

References

  1. Listed Building schedule
  2. OS Explorer Map 237 – Norwich, Wymondham, Attleborough and Watton. ISBN 0319238091.
  3. Hotel AA Rating
  4. County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, ISBN 978 1 84348 614 5
  5. 1 2 "Keith Shaw: Norfolk businessman was successful hotelier". Norwich Evening News. 11 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 Norfolk Heritage Explorer Retrieved 18 January, 2013


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