How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.

How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South

WRENN ID
burning-grate-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South, the Green, Howe, NR15 1HD
OS grid reference
TM 270 996
Coordinates
52.54749, 1.34711
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

How Hall is a house dating from the early 17th century, with a later 17th-century wing at the rear. It features a brick-clad timber frame, with the brick laid in English bond, and has pantile and tile roofs. The house has a three-cell cross passage-type plan to the south, with a later wing at right angles to the rear, creating a T-shaped layout.

The south facade is made of mid-18th-century brick and consists of four bays over two storeys. There is an off-centre 20th-century door with a semicircular brick arch above and a blocked fanlight, flanked by 20th-century canted bay windows. To the left, there is a three-light 19th-century casement window with a transom under a segmental arch. The first floor has three three-light 18th-century casements with timber lintels, and a fourth, dummy window at the left end. The gables have kneelered parapets, and there is an off-centre axial stack and a stack at the eastern gable end.

The garden to the south of the facade is enclosed by a wall made of English bond brick, approximately one meter high. The north wing of the house is built in 17th-century brick. To the west, there is an oak chamfered mullion window with a fanlight, which was the original kitchen door to its north. The first floor has a 20th-century casement and a blocked opening. To the east, there is one 18th-century casement with signs of a larger opening to the left, and another window with a timber lintel now obscured by an outshut. The upper floor has two long windows now fitted with leaded casements and a small blocked stair light. The parapet gables have reused stone kneelers, with the eastern gable featuring an angel bearing a shield. There is a gable end stack and two blocked attic lights in the gable. A 20th-century lean-to and extension are not of special interest.

Inside, there are remains of a timber-framed staircase outshut incorporated into the rear wing, along with ovolo moulded beams. The wall posts and tie beams of the 17th-century timber frame are visible at the first floor in the south wing. The lintel of the upper window in the east face of the rear wing has a mortice for a ten-light mullioned window. The roof has butt purlins and was restored in the 20th century, retaining some remains of queen-post construction.

Local climate

How Hall and Forecourt Court Garden Walls to South 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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