Hilborough Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. A C18 House.

Hilborough Hall

WRENN ID
twisted-floor-hawthorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1951
Type
House
OS grid reference
TF 827 002
Coordinates
52.56976, 0.6956
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hilborough Hall is a house built in 1779 and later. It is constructed of gault brick with some stone dressings and has slate roofs. The main block is nearly square in shape, with lower extensions to the sides and rear. The building has three storeys and a cellar. The entrance facade features five bays of sash windows with glazing bars set beneath skewback arches, with the top storey windows being smaller. The three central bays are slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. The ground floor has rusticated quoins and stone platbands. The front doorway is semicircular-headed with a rusticated surround and a fanlight, and it has a two-leaf panelled door flanked by narrow sash windows. Above, there are balustraded windows in the style of Holkham, and a straight hood mould above the wider central window. The cornices are decorated with prominent dentils.

The east facade has three bays, with a later rectangular bay added to the centre and a balustraded window on the first floor. The rear facade consists of four bays, with the central two bays slightly advanced and replacement sash windows without glazing bars on the ground floor. The first floor features balustraded windows, and the building has hipped roofs. There is a single-storey 20th-century extension to the rear that is in a sympathetic style, along with two-storeyed service buildings to the west. Inside, the hall boasts fine Adam plasterwork and fireplaces.

Local climate

Hilborough Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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