5 and 6 The Crescent is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
5 and 6 The Crescent
- WRENN ID
- silver-soffit-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 and 6 The Crescent, Off Lopham Road, Harling, NR16 2PX
- OS grid reference
- TL 995 859
- Coordinates
- 52.43505, 0.93394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 5 and 6 The Crescent are a pair of semi-detached council houses built between 1919 and 1920, designed by George Skipper. They are constructed from rendered clay-lump with pantile roofs and feature plain barge boards. The houses are single storey with attics and have a symmetrical layout. The main front includes single half-glazed doors on both the right and left, each with timber lean-to porches. Beyond the doors are small glazing bar casements, and between them are two-light glazing bar casements. Above these windows is a continuous wooden drip shelf supported by ornate wooden brackets. There are also two single small glazing bar casements at the eaves, with a pair of two-light glazing bar casements set within a central gable above. This gable also features a drip shelf supported by similar brackets and weather boarding above. These houses were part of an initiative by Norfolk County Council to explore affordable house building techniques.
Local climate
5 and 6 The Crescent 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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