Soane's Music Room at North-East Corner of the Wilderness North of Earsham Hall is a Grade I listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. A 1784 Music room. 3 related planning applications.
Soane's Music Room at North-East Corner of the Wilderness North of Earsham Hall
- WRENN ID
- odd-tin-hyssop
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1959
- Type
- Music room
- Address
- Soane's Music Room at North-East Corner of the Wilderness North of Earsham Hall, Hall Road
- OS grid reference
- TM 307 900
- Coordinates
- 52.45951, 1.39469
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Soane's Music Room, located at the north-east corner of the wilderness north of Earsham Hall, was built in 1784 by Sir John Soane. This small rectangular brick building features a fine ashlar facade, complete with a parapet and cornice. The advanced three-bay center is supported by four Ionic engaged columns, which hold up a pediment adorned with a medallion and garlands. Between the columns is a central glazed door topped by a large semi-circular traceried fanlight with a keyblock. On either side of the door, there are tall straight-headed windows, with square lights above them. A moulded string course runs over similar windows in the flanking bays, although these do not have lights above. Inside, the room boasts a coffered segmental vaulted ceiling with a modillion cornice, and there are alcoves at each end, each featuring a coffered vault. The front area is enclosed by iron railings and paved. This building is illustrated in Soane's "Plans Elevations and Sections of buildings in Norfolk, Suffolk etc." from 1788.
Local climate
Soane's Music Room at North-East Corner of the Wilderness North of Earsham 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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