Editing Wroxham (section)

==Significant buildings==
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a [[Listed building|grade I]] listed building and stands at the top of a steep slope above the River Bure. It is built of flint with limestone dressings and with lead roofs. It has a high tower and a famous Norman (12th century) south doorway, stained blue, with seven [[Classical order|orders]] and three shafts, described by the architectural historian [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] as 'barbaric and glorious'. The church was [[Victorian restoration|heavily restored]] in the Victorian age.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/wroxham/wroxham.htm|title = Norfolk Churches}}</ref> In the churchyard is the Trafford Mausoleum, mediaeval in appearance but built in 1831 to designs by the architect [[Anthony Salvin]]. The area near the church was historically the core of the village. A brick and pantile manor house to the south east of the church has stepped [[gable]]s showing Dutch influence, and a [[Wall panel|panel]] dating to 1623. A picturesque red brick grade II listed cottage dating from about 1820 abuts the churchyard.

Other significant houses in the village include Keys Hill House, built to the east of Norwich Road around 1890 by important Norwich architect, [[Edward Boardman]], as a substantial country house in Jacobean style. It was briefly used as a camp for Italian prisoners of war<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mywroxham.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/2011/06/10/wroxham-mywroxham/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=8 February 2016 |archive-date=6 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806192922/http://mywroxham.norfolkparishes.gov.uk/2011/06/10/wroxham-mywroxham/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and later as an old people's home.<ref name="broadland" /> [[George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]], the early twentieth-century entertainer, once owned a riverside home in Beech Road, off the Avenue, a thatched house called Heronby, built in 1907. Nearby is Charles Close, a mid-20th century residential development on the site of the Charles family's large Georgian mansion, Wroxham House, demolished in 1954. Closer to Wroxham Broad to the south stands the early 18th century red brick estate house Broad House, formerly the seat of the local land-owning Trafford family, more recently a 'boutique' hotel. On the west side of Norwich Road stands the large former village inn, The Castle, which has been converted into flats. The red brick Victorian school house stands between Norwich Road and the church, the additional post-war school buildings having been demolished after the school closed in the 1980s (although the old school house continued as a [[Waldorf education|Steiner]] school until the 2000s).