Great Witchingham Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. Country house. 2 related planning applications.
Great Witchingham Hall
- WRENN ID
- winding-rood-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Great Witchingham Hall, Hall Road, NR9 5QD
- OS grid reference
- TG 111 186
- Coordinates
- 52.72386, 1.12583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Witchingham Hall is a country house that is now partly used as offices. It dates from the late 16th century to early 17th century but has been significantly altered and remodeled in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick with stone and plastered brick dressings, topped with a steeply pitched slate roof.
The south front features a Tudor porch and two adjoining bays, which are three storeys high. It has mullion and transom windows with pediments, stepped gables, and embattled parapets. The south wing, built in 1812 by Timothy Tompson, is two storeys tall and has pedimented windows, crow-stepped gables, and bays divided by pilasters with crocketted pinnacles.
The north front was remodeled by Charles Kett Thompson in 1872 and is three storeys high, featuring millioned, transomed, and pedimented windows, along with stepped gables and crenellated parapets. It includes two canted bays with polygonal angle turrets and finials. The building also boasts many groups of moulded brick chimney shafts with star-caps. Inside, there is a notable fireplace from 1609 adorned with female figures against the overmantel, as well as some panelling that is said to have originated from Kirstead Hall.
Local climate
Great Witchingham Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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