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Hickling Hall fire: Grade II-listed home destroyed | |
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A Grade II-listed home in Norfolk has been destroyed in a suspected chimney fire. | |
Dozens of firefighters from across Norfolk were called to Hickling Hall, Hickling, at about 19:50 GMT on Boxing Day. | |
Norfolk Fire Service said the three-floor hall on farmland was gutted. | |
Roy Harrold, Norfolk's deputy chief fire officer, said: "With the nature of a building fire this intense, it's difficult to get back inside safely." | |
"We were called to a chimney fire, but the first arriving crews sent a message back immediately to say the fire was spreading to a bedroom upstairs," said Mr Harrold. | "We were called to a chimney fire, but the first arriving crews sent a message back immediately to say the fire was spreading to a bedroom upstairs," said Mr Harrold. |
"Unfortunately, there were not very good water supplies in the area and the crews were unable to contain the fire and the whole properly was lost. | "Unfortunately, there were not very good water supplies in the area and the crews were unable to contain the fire and the whole properly was lost. |
"It's a shell; the entire interior was destroyed. It's very sad to see as it was clearly a lovely building." | |