Little Palgrave Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1951. Farmhouse.

Little Palgrave Hall

WRENN ID
cold-copper-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Little Palgrave Hall, Sporle with Palgrave
OS grid reference
TF 832 134
Coordinates
52.68794, 0.70987
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Palgrave Hall is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, with a facade that was refurbished in the 18th century and further altered in the early 19th century. The building features a brick facade, with flint, brick, and re-used ashlar gable-ends, topped by black and red pantile roofs. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical facade consisting of three bays of sash windows with glazing bars, set beneath segmental arches. The ground floor windows were formerly much wider.

A central recessed porch made of stucco is supported by a pair of square columns in antis and features a plain entablature. Above the porch are two narrow sash windows. The central gabled dormer has stone coping and a sash window beneath a semicircular relieving arch. The 17th-century gable-ends have been rebuilt in brick, with the western gable-end displaying four sash windows and some evidence of the original first-floor opening.

To the east gable-end, there is a 19th-century single-storeyed canted bay with two sash windows above. The building contains considerable quantities of re-used limestone ashlar, likely sourced from Castle Acre priory. Both gables are adorned with stone copings and decorative peak finials. At the rear wall, there are two stacks, and the property includes 18th and 19th-century service extensions. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase featuring turned balusters, an open string, and a swept mahogany handrail.

Local climate

Little Palgrave Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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