Bidwell Brewery Building is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Former brewery.

Bidwell Brewery Building

WRENN ID
narrow-rubblework-auburn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1971
Type
Former brewery
Address
Bidwell Brewery Building, Old Market Street, Thetford
OS grid reference
TL 872 827
Coordinates
52.41098, 0.75227
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bidwell Brewery building, originally a brewery and now used for warehousing, dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of flint with gault brick dressings and features slate roofs. The building stands three to four storeys tall and has an arcade of five recessed bays on the first and second floors, which now have 20th-century windows. Above the left two bays, there is a dentilled pediment. The remaining bays have two additional storeys, with two recessed arches and a hipped roof. The roof also includes two malting louvres. To the north-east, there is a two-storey warehousing extension under a gabled slate roof.

Local climate

Bidwell Brewery Building 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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