Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. Farmhouse.

Old Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1951
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Hall Farmhouse, Great Ellingham
OS grid reference
TM 015 964
Coordinates
52.529, 0.97048
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Hall Farmhouse is a house, now functioning as a farmhouse, that dates back to around 1570. It is timber framed with wattle and daub, and some clay lump infill set on a brick plinth. The roof is black glazed pantiled, with red tiles at the rear, and the building features a cross wing plan with two storeys. The central range is flanked by gabled cross wings.

There are two asymmetrical doors, one of which on the right is from the 19th century. The ground floor has two renewed lower casements, while above, there are three 3-light timber mullioned casements that are from the 17th or 18th century. The north wing has one renewed window on each floor and a 20th-century French window. The ground floor is encased in brick, and the timber studding on the north wall is exposed. The gabled roof has bargeboards and a 20th-century stack.

The south wing is similar and features an early 19th-century tripartite window on the ground floor. At the rear, there is an 18th-century catslide extension that is timber framed on a brick plinth, with fenestration from the 19th and 20th centuries, including two 20th-century flat dormers and two large external stacks. Inside, the original staircase that rises to the attic has survived, featuring heavy turned balusters on square bases, newel posts with incised rectangular fields and top ball finials, and moulded handrails.

Local climate

Old Hall Farmhouse 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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