Morley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1983. Boarding school.

Morley Hall

WRENN ID
white-entrance-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1983
Type
Boarding school
OS grid reference
TM 077 986
Coordinates
52.54587, 1.06249
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Morley Hall is a boarding school built between 1841 and 1842, as noted in White's 1883 publication. The building is constructed from gault brick, featuring mortar dressings and mouldings. It has a rectangular plan with a later extension on one side designed in the Italianate style. The structure stands three storeys tall, with the south facade divided into three bays by giant pilasters and five bays of sash windows that have glazing bars, which diminish in height with each storey. The windows are surrounded by moulded architraves, with pediments above the ground floor windows and cornices above the first floor windows. The facade also includes blind boxes, a heavily moulded cornice, and a parapet. The east entrance facade has three bays and features a large painted porch with an entablature, parapet, and urns supported by two pairs of Roman Doric piers.

Local climate

Morley Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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