Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Farmhouse.

Old Hall

WRENN ID
sleeping-truss-sorrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Hall, Church Road, Hardingham
OS grid reference
TG 032 048
Coordinates
52.60361, 1.00007
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall is a former farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with later additions. It is constructed of brick in English bond and has pantile roofs. A late 17th-century side addition creates an L-shaped plan. The building features a porch, two external stacks, and two stair outshuts at the rear. It has two storeys with an attic and a symmetrical five-bay facade on the original block. The central two-storey porch has a semicircular headed entrance that is recessed within a rectangular opening, flanked by pilasters and topped with a stuccoed moulded brick cornice. The polygonal angle pilasters are truncated and partially rebuilt, and there is a stuccoed moulded brick stringcourse.

On the first floor, there is an 18th-century three-light window with a metal casement. The original two-leaf door features moulded cover strips and lozenge decoration within an ovolo moulded frame. The ground floor has moulded brick pediments with renewed stucco. The building also has 18th-century fenestration with three and four lights, all having metal casements. The side addition includes three similar windows on the front. The rear has staged external stacks, and the stair outshuts have long windows with glazing bars and hipped roofs. The main block also has hipped roofs.

Inside, there is a late 18th-century staircase with shaped tread-ends, square section balusters, and a swept handrail. The original roof features collar beams and two sets of butt-purlins, with the lower purlins being of square section and diagonally set. Some original 17th-century panelling remains.

Local climate

Old Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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