District Council Offices and Attached Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Office, warehouse, manufactury. 6 related planning applications.
District Council Offices and Attached Maltings
- WRENN ID
- sharp-lancet-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Office, warehouse, manufactury
- Address
- District Council Offices and Attached Maltings, Raymond Street, Thetford, IP24 2EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 828
- Coordinates
- 52.41195, 0.75092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building comprises former maltings and a warehouse, now used as district council offices. It was originally built in the late 18th century, but was largely rebuilt in 1861 and altered in 1989. The complex consists of two parallel blocks linked by a cross wing. The main block, facing Raymond Street, was a warehouse and manufactory, while the smaller block to the north-east operated as maltings. The construction uses flint facing to clunch and brick walls, with red and gault brick dressings. The roofs are covered in slate and artificial slate.
The main block has three storeys and seven bays, featuring late 20th-century two-light casement windows. A blocked loading bay door is situated between bays 5 and 6, with a coat of arms above it bearing an illegible date. Red brick bands delineate the floors. The north-west gable wall is rendered, while the south-east gable wall has a late 20th-century door and one two-light casement on each floor. The linking piece to the maltings is set back and features similar details, with a datestone indicating 1861. The maltings themselves are arranged on a T-shaped plan and incorporate boarded entrances, two-light casement windows without glass, and gabled roofs. A projecting bar to the north-west has a gabled roof and a raised malting kiln louvre.
The interior features bricked-in spaces that formerly connected the offices and maltings. The roofs are of late 20th-century construction, and the ground-floor entrance has breeze block partitions and an inserted staircase.
Local climate
District Council Offices and Attached Maltings 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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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