Hargham Hall and Garden Wall to North is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1984. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Hargham Hall and Garden Wall to North
- WRENN ID
- lone-belfry-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1984
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Hargham Hall and Garden Wall to North, Quidenham, NR16 2JW
- OS grid reference
- TM 021 920
- Coordinates
- 52.489, 0.97559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hargham Hall is a country house built around 1690, with early 19th-century additions. The building is constructed of colourwashed brick and features a slate roof. The west front has five bays and is two storeys high with a dormer attic. Each bay contains sash windows set under gauged skewback arches, and there is a string course between the floors. The eaves cornice is dentilled timber, and there are three shallow pedimented dormers with sash windows that still have their glazing bars. The roof is gabled but hipped to the south, where a two-storey addition from around 1800 is set forward from the original structure.
The ground floor includes a porch designed as a Venetian window beneath a stepped brick string course. The first floor has a sash window with glazing bars, flanked by two blind windows. The south front is partly obscured by the porch bay and features a one-storey gabled range from around 1815, which has tripartite sashes with glazing bars in irregular bays. The original house's south gable shows double stepped external stacks and partly visible blind round-headed niches.
On the east front, there is a central half-glazed 20th-century door under a gauged skewback arch, along with four late 20th-century sash windows on the ground floor, also under gauged skewback arches. A moulded brick string course is interrupted to allow a central first-floor sash window to extend lower than the four flanking sashes, all of which have early 18th-century ovolo glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. The eaves cornice and three dormers match those on the west front. The north gable wall features two stepped external stacks with blind niches, and there is evidence of blocked windows, including one first-floor sash with glazing bars and an oval attic light.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century closed string dog-leg staircase that spans three storeys, featuring iron twist balusters and heavy moulded handrails, along with square newels and upper newel pendants.
A contemporary walled garden made of brick is adjacent to the north gable wall, enclosing a square lawn. There is a summerhouse in the north return, which has a large shaped gable.
Local climate
Hargham Hall and Garden Wall to North 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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