Old Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Old Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-railing-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Hall Farmhouse, Rectory Road, Edgefield, NR24 2RJ
- OS grid reference
- TG 094 349
- Coordinates
- 52.87134, 1.11069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Hall Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th century, with additions made around 1600. It is constructed of flint with brick dressings and has a pantile roof. The building is a three-cell single range with a porch at the front, a stair turret, and a wing at the rear. It stands two storeys high with an attic. There is an off-centre axial stack to the right, while the internal left gable end stack has been rebuilt. The front of the house was renewed in the 1980s, featuring 19th and 20th century three-light casements with glazing bars, as well as two gabled roof dormers with casements on the right side. The right-hand gable has been rebuilt, and the chimney stack has been renewed. There is a single-storey outshut at the front on the right side, with the right wall made of renewed flint beneath a brick gable that has tumbled brickwork.
The projecting three-storeyed gabled brick porch, dating from around 1600, features pantiles and clasping polygonal buttresses that end in pyramidal finials. The doorway has a semicircular head beneath a renewed rendered pediment with rendered rusticated jambs. A semicircular fanlight with glazing bars is present, along with first and second floor casement windows under rendered pediments; the first-floor window has glazing bars and rendered rusticated jambs. There is a fire insurance plaque beneath the second storey window. At the rear, the central three-storeyed stair turret has four blocked openings and one casement window. To the left is a two-storeyed wing from around 1600, which has a French window added in 1985 in the ground floor gable end. There is a small infill extension with a catslide roof between the stair turret and the wing, and a 19th century single-storey service addition to the left of the wing.
Inside, the farmhouse features ovolo moulded doorcases to the front outshut and the rear wing, as well as a large ovolo moulded doorcase with elaborate stops in the stair turret. There is a moulded lintel above a window in the central bay, and the first floor has principal beams that are chamfered, some with bar stops. The roof has been largely renewed, including a new roof for the rear wing. The internal gable end stack has been removed on the ground and attic floors of the wing, while the first floor has a brick fireplace with an elliptical arch.
Local climate
Old Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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