The Lilacs is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1983. Former school.
The Lilacs
- WRENN ID
- waning-jamb-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1983
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- The Lilacs, Church Hill, Saxlingham Nethergate
- OS grid reference
- TM 231 970
- Coordinates
- 52.52578, 1.28831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lilacs is a former school built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from colour-washed brick and features a slate roof. The building is single storey with a symmetrical facade that has five bays, a central gabled porch, and four three-light casement windows, all set beneath rectangular hood moulds. The porch has a four-centred archway with a hood mould. The roof is shallow and has crow-stepped gables. There is one central axial stack and an additional stack on the rear pitch of the north gable-end. The Lilacs is included for its group value with The Old Hall and the Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
Local climate
The Lilacs sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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