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

Old Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
crumbling-steeple-merlin
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 Farmhouse, Eastgate Street, North Elmham
OS grid reference
TF 991 204
Coordinates
52.74498, 0.94927
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in 1669, as indicated by a re-set datestone in the north gable, with later additions. The structure is made of coursed flint, featuring occasional brick headers and brick dressings, and has a pantile roof. The original block has undergone partial rebuilding in the 19th century at the southern end of the facade, along with an early side addition to the north and later additions to the rear.

The building is two storeys high with an attic. It has a slightly advanced, off-centre entrance bay with a skewback arch leading to a doorway beneath a moulded brick platband, which is now mostly hidden by a modern porch. There is a blocked window opening above the entrance. The central section features former long windows, which have been altered to include two 3-light mullion and transom windows with metal casements on the ground floor, and one 2-light and one 3-light casement above. Additionally, there is a 3-light mullion and transom window beneath a skewback arch with a cambered soffit to the south of the porch, along with a 3-light casement above. The northern extension has modern windows.

The farmhouse also has three gabled dormers with decorative barge boards and one surviving original window at the rear, which is a 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions. The chimney features one 17th-century off-centre axial stack with three angled shafts, one gable-end stack, and one on the rear pitch. The south gable-end has a modern canted bay and a gable with tumbling-in.

Inside, the original block contains two ovolo-moulded spinal bridging joists, and the northern extension features ogee and nicked chamfer stops. Notable interior elements include fine 18th-century panel paintings, which consist of an overmantel landscape depicting a picturesque ruin and two narrow floral still-life paintings flanking doorways. The roof has been modernized.

Local climate

Old Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% 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 30 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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