20 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House, shop.
20 London Street
- WRENN ID
- quiet-balcony-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 20 London Street, Swaffham, PE37 7DG
- OS grid reference
- TF 820 087
- Coordinates
- 52.64622, 0.68876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20 London Street is a mid-19th century house and shop. The building is made of brick laid in Flemish bond, and it has a pitched roof covered in black-glazed pantiles.
The front of the building faces east onto London Street. It is three bays wide and two storeys high, featuring a small skylight near the ridge and a shallow eaves cornice. There are brick-built chimneys at both ends of the roof ridge.
On the ground floor, there is a late-19th century shop front in the larger southern bay, flanked by consoles and a shallow frieze. The shop front consists of three parts: on the left is a canted bay window with a large plate glass pane in the center and slim clerestory lights above, along with an elaborate cast-iron grille at the base. The center of the shop front has a blocked doorway, and on the right is another doorway with a half-glazed door, panelled reveals, and a six-vaned metal fan-light. The two northern bays each feature a six-over-six unhorned sash window with concealed boxes, and the entire base of the ground floor has a painted flint rubble plinth.
On the first floor, there are six-over-six unhorned sash windows with concealed boxes in each of the three bays. At the rear, there is a wing made of flint with brick dressings.
The building was first listed in 1973, with its listing updated in 1996. Earlier listings mention a 19th-century staircase with bobbin-turned balusters, but no further details about the interior features are provided.
Local climate
20 London Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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