Bylaugh Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1982. Country house. 2 related planning applications.
Bylaugh Hall
- WRENN ID
- haunted-chalk-smoke
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1982
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Bylaugh Hall, NR20 4RL
- OS grid reference
- TG 035 187
- Coordinates
- 52.72811, 1.01282
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bylaugh Hall is a ruined country house dating from 1850 to 1852, designed by Charles Barry, junior, and R. Banks for the trustees of Sir John Lombe. The house is constructed with an ashlar facade over a brick base and is now roofless. It is built in the Elizabethan Prodigy House style. The main building is two storeys high with a basement and attics, and a further storey is added to the central bay.
The entrance facade has seven bays, featuring ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transom windows; these are three-light in the central bay and two-light in the remaining bays. Bay divisions are emphasised by boldly projecting semi-rusticated pilasters topped with obelisks. The rusticated basement has plain chamfered mullion windows with two lights. A former strapwork parapet remains around the basement. Five out of six dormers survive, each with a segmental pediment and a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion window. The central porch is elaborately decorated with angle pilasters featuring diamond rustication and bas relief carvings; it has a three-centred entrance arch, deeply carved arms above, and a pierced parapet with obelisks and heraldic beasts. Horizontal divisions incorporate a full entablature at each level, with a cartouche in each section of the frieze. Twin pilasters flank the main corners and taller centre bay, rising to form turrets. The garden facade, largely hidden by ivy, consists of a taller central bay flanked by two-storey rectangular bays. The west facade has five bays, with the centre three bays slightly recessed.
Local climate
Bylaugh Hall receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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