Service Range to South West of Blickling Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1988. A 1624 Service range. 1 related planning application.

Service Range to South West of Blickling Hall

WRENN ID
gaunt-mantel-autumn
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1988
Type
Service range
Address
Service Range to South West of Blickling Hall, NR11 6NF
OS grid reference
TG 178 286
Coordinates
52.81133, 1.23088
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The service range located to the south-west of Blickling Hall is a former service building that now serves as National Trust offices. It is dated 1624 on the east front but has undergone significant rebuilding behind the facade in the late 19th century. The structure is made of red brick with stucco dressings and features some decorative diaper-work. It has a steeply-pitched roof that is plain tiled on the east side and pantiled on the west.

The building is two storeys high with an attic and has an east facade consisting of 14 bays. Notably, bays 3, 6, 9, and 12 are adorned with Dutch gables that have moulded brick base-corbels. The windows are three-light ovolo-moulded mullion types with leaded glazing and iron casements, and there are transoms above the first-floor windows. The attic features two-light windows set within the gables, with square stuccoed panels above them.

There are five semicircular-headed door openings, each with plain stuccoed pilasters resting on a red brick plinth. A moulded platband runs above the heads of the ground floor windows, and there is a Dutch gable on the north side. The west side has been largely rebuilt and includes sash and top-hung windows, all with glazing bars set in plain stuccoed surrounds, along with a moulded eaves cornice. The building is capped with six ridge stacks that have diagonally-set square shafts arranged in groups of two, three, and four.

Local climate

Service Range to South West of Blickling Hall receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Service Range to South East of Blickling Hall Grade I 55 m
  2. Blickling Hall Grade I 70 m
  3. L Shaped Range of Barns Immediately South East of Blickling Hall Grade II 103 m
  4. Walled Garden to South-West of Blickling Hall Grade II 132 m
  5. Cottages Immediately South East of Blickling Hall Grade II 144 m
  6. Terrace Walls and Steps to Parterre Garden East of Blickling Hall Grade II 159 m
  7. Four Garden Urns East of Blickling Hall Grade II 162 m
  8. Pair of Garden Urns at Base of Steps on East Side of Formal Gardens Grade II 163 m
  9. Buckinghamshire Arms Public House Grade II 169 m
  10. Cottage Immediately North of Buckinghamshire Arms Grade II 172 m