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