Silfield Old Hall is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. House.

Silfield Old Hall

WRENN ID
knotted-courtyard-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
House
Address
Silfield Old Hall, 1, Silfield Road, Wymondham
OS grid reference
TM 120 995
Coordinates
52.55272, 1.12575
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Silfield Old Hall is a house dating from the mid 17th century, with cross wings added in the late 17th century, creating a cruciform plan. It is timber-framed, with the wings featuring brick ground floors and timber-framed upper floors, all topped with pantiled roofs. The building was divided into two properties in 1940. It has two storeys and an attic, with a 20th-century doorway in the west gable. The windows are scattered, consisting mainly of late 20th-century top-hung casements, along with some late 18th-century three-light casements. The roofs are gabled, and there is a rebuilt central ridge stack on the main range, as well as an external stack on the east side of the south cross wing.

Inside, the west half features chamfered and tongue-stopped bridging beams on the ground floor, a closed string staircase with bulbous turned balusters and a moulded handrail, and doors that are mostly late 17th-century two-panelled types. The east half, which is unoccupied, has sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beams, and the roof has mostly been renewed, now consisting of collars and butt purlins.

Local climate

Silfield Old Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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