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

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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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