Greenhouse 150 Metres North West of Hoveton Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 October 1987. A Regency Glasshouse.
Greenhouse 150 Metres North West of Hoveton Hall
- WRENN ID
- keen-solder-ochre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1987
- Type
- Glasshouse
- Period
- Regency
- OS grid reference
- TG 315 201
- Coordinates
- 52.72913, 1.42778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The greenhouse located 150 metres north-west of Hoveton Hall is a Grade II* listed glasshouse built around 1809 to 1812, with an extension added in the early 20th century. The original structure was likely designed by Humphrey and John Adey Repton, while the extension was created by Messenger and Co. of Loughborough.
The original section features rolled wrought iron, cast iron, and glass, supported by a brick wall with bothies behind. It has a lean-to design that curves downwards on either side and extends to the rear at full height to hide the bothies. The front extension has resulted in a T-plan layout. The original part includes a brick plinth and glazed gable ends with a Gothic-arch part-glazed door. It has small panes of glass set in fine glazing bars, with similar windows on the front of the lean-to. The roof is made of Gothic-style openwork iron rafters arranged in two panels, bolted together and fixed to the rear wall, featuring small cast-iron head corbels.
Inside, there are brick raised beds and shelves. This glasshouse is particularly significant as an early example of the use of rolled wrought iron in greenhouse construction and is of additional interest as it was built around the same time as Hoveton Hall, likely by the same architects.
Local climate
Greenhouse 150 Metres North West of Hoveton 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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