At the front centre is a projecting two-storey section with stepped gable and octagonal tower on the north corner.

Adjoining the main house to the north east there are a range of buildings which include stables and domestic wing.

This section is built behind flint screen wall with three and four-centred headed doorways and two stone mullion and transom windows.

The hall has a strong literary connection thanks to a visit to the house by the writer Arthur Conan Doyle, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.

To aid his recuperation, the author decided to take a golfing holiday in North Norfolk, accompanied by the journalist and writer, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.

The whole front was draped in ivy,[6] with a patch clipped bare here and there where a window or a coat-of-arms broke through the dark veil.

A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep, high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke… From The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902.

[7] Cromer Hall was bought by Benjamin Bond Cabbell from Lady Listowel (daughter of Admiral William Lukin Windham) in 1852.