[3] Melton Constable Hall is regarded as the finest specimen of the Christopher Wren style of house.

It was a new town built in 1880s at the junction of four railway lines, which came from Cromer, North Walsham, King's Lynn and Norwich and linked Norfolk to the Midlands.

Melton Constable railway station, with a platform 800 feet (240 m) long, was constructed with a specially-appointed waiting room for Lord Hastings, the local squire.

Between 1959 and 1964, British Railways chose to close the lines, withdrawing both passenger and goods services from Melton Constable, which resulted in the slow decline of the village; it now lies stranded in the middle of a vast agricultural area which uses other forms of transport.

In 1971, the station was demolished and the works were converted into an industrial estate; several railway buildings are extant and have found other uses.