Norfolk House is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1966. House.
Norfolk House
- WRENN ID
- old-alcove-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Lichfield MP: Dave Robertson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- Norfolk House, Market Place, Abbots Bromley, WS15 3BP
- OS grid reference
- SK 080 245
- Coordinates
- 52.81837, -1.88132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Norfolk House is a house with an early 16th century core that has been extended, remodeled, and partly rebuilt in the early 19th century. It features roughcast over an earlier timber frame and a fishscale tile roof with coped verges. The building has two storeys and a first-floor band, with three windows that include glazing bar casements, except for the ground floor right and center, which have 24-pane glazing bar sashes. There is a small fire window to the right, and the right-hand bay is slightly recessed. A door located to the right of center is approached by a flight of balustraded stone steps.
Inside, the original west gable now serves as an internal partition between the central and west bays, showcasing close-studded timber framing and a jettied gable that is approximately four feet above the current first-floor level. The bresummer is both billet-moulded and roll-moulded, and there is a close-studded partition wall at the first-floor level between the central and east bays. Inserted timbers just below this area retain fragments of a wall painting. The roof structure consists of a single pair of purlins, a ridge piece, and curved wind braces. Norfolk House was formerly known as the Dolphin Inn.
Local climate
Norfolk House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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