Attleborough Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1951. A C16 Country house.
Attleborough Hall
- WRENN ID
- graven-courtyard-moss
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 July 1951
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Attleborough Hall, Wymondham Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 050 962
- Coordinates
- 52.52572, 1.02129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Attleborough Hall is a country house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century. The building features a timber frame that has been encased in brick during the late 17th century, topped with plain tiled roofs. It stands two storeys high with a dormer attic.
The east cross wing has a central door situated below a six-vaned fanlight. The ground floor is adorned with tripartite early 19th-century sash windows, while a round-headed mid-19th-century sash window is located above the door. There is one tripartite sash window on the south return, positioned below a moulded brick string course with a hood. A similar window is found on the first floor, both featuring glazing bars. The hipped roof includes a gabled dormer that contains a casement window with 'Gothick' glazing bars.
The main range has three sash windows on each floor, all under keyblocked arches. The right ground floor window has been converted into a French window. There is evidence of blocked windows, and a small round-headed light is located in the centre of the first floor above the string course, which is similar but dislocated from that of the cross wing. The west return is similar in style but features random 19th-century cross casements. An external stack is present on the north side, partly obscured by a late 18th-century one-and-a-half storey hipped extension.
Inside, much of the interior dates from the late 17th century. The sitting room features a panelled dado and deep moulded coving. The drawing room contains a fireplace from around 1830 and fielded panelling. Four 16th-century bridging beams are exposed in the kitchen. An open well staircase extends through three storeys, featuring a moulded string and handrail supported by turned balusters with square newels. The upper bedroom has two walls of moulded panelling painted to imitate marble, extending over the fireplace and enclosing an Arcadian painting as an overmantel. A heavy modillion cornice is present in this room, along with two further bedrooms that also have panelling on the first floor.
Local climate
Attleborough Hall 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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