Mannington Hall is a moated medieval country house in the civil parish of Itteringham near the village of the same name and is in the English county of Norfolk within the United Kingdom.

[4] The name Mannington devolved from the Anglo-Saxon language and has the meaning of the enclosure (tun or ton) owned by the people (ing or ingus) of Manna’s.

Henry died shortly after and the land and possessions passed to his son and heir William Lumner.

In Nikolaus Pevsner’s[12] Buildings of England, North-east Norfolk and Norwich, he claims that a licence to crenellate was obtained by Lumnor in 1451.

[13] Lumnor had set several small guns on his battlements which he had constructed from stone and black knapped flint.

[14] Inside the house on the wooden wall covering or wainscot he installed his family coat of arms of Lumner impaling Monivaux.

When the hall came into the possession of John Potts he was a student in Lincoln's Inn and who became a lawyer of eminence and reputation.

[19] Cromwell visited Potts on numerous occasions whilst staying at the nearby Irmingland Hall, Oulton, the home of Lt General Charles Fleetwood.

Like his brother, Horatio was also a politician and diplomat, and spend time at the Hague and had also been the Ambassador of France in Paris between 1724 and 1730.

Evidently it was the very low importance that Horatio placed on the hall and its lack of re-development that allowed to go virtually unaltered from the time of the Potts ownership.

Horatio the fourth had an interest in antiquity and in gothic architecture and he also thought that Mannington would make a better family home than the grand and formal house at Wolterton.

Walpole let the house to the consulting dental surgeon Sir Charles Tomes,[2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

The eastern elevation incorporates the main body of the hall via a link building projecting west which according to Nikolaus Pevsner[22] was the kitchen.

Link to this projection and running north there is a range of two-storey brick and flint domestic and utility buildings with a set of four gable fronted dormer with mullioned windows.

Many of the window mullions and revels are carved from the local carrstone which is found in the north west of Norfolk.