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Search the Public Notice PortalIt was once a countryside mansion where lions roamed the gardens... until they killed the owner's son.
However, Colney Hall, on the outskirts of Norwich, is now facing a very different future.
A scheme which would see retirement homes built in the grounds of the mansion is being worked up.
Papers sent to South Norfolk Council suggest 119 units are being earmarked, as well as a purpose-built nursing home for people with dementia.
They also suggests there would be works carried out on the mansion itself, which was put up for sale with a £5.5million guide price in 2024.
Approximately 37 acres will be taken up by the scheme if it comes to fruition, with a community hall and open public space also included.
Oakfield Homes Limited, the developer, has asked South Norfolk Council whether it would need to send further information about the environmental impacts the plans may have.
The developer added: “The site forms part of an active and evolving estate rather than an untouched rural landscape.
“The proposal therefore represents regeneration and enhancement rather than the introduction of a fundamentally new land use.”
Hugh Gurney Barclay, a vice-chancellor of Barclays Bank and the high sheriff of Norfolk, built caves for his lions to live in at Colney Hall when he owned it.
The family treated them as pets and played with them in the garden until they killed Mr Barclay’s son Terrence in 1911.
Edith Cavell was also a governess for the family in 1889.
It is a separate scheme to the plans put forward by Castlemeadow Care for another retirement complex at another part of the Colney Hall site four years ago.
That scheme is still being considered by planning officials, with a decision date yet to be confirmed.
More than 200 retirement homes are being put forward as part of that scheme, as well as a 20-bed care facility and an academic centre.
In its unveiling of the scheme, Castlemeadow Care said it would be working alongside the University of East Anglia to create the first “bespoke social care training campus.”
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