Detached bell tower is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1972. Bell tower.
Detached bell tower
- WRENN ID
- heavy-ember-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1972
- Type
- Bell tower
- Address
- Detached bell tower, Church Street, Dereham
- OS grid reference
- TF 987 132
- Coordinates
- 52.68082, 0.9383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The detached bell tower, located to the southeast of the Church of St Nicholas, dates from the early 16th century. It is built in four stages using flints, with stone quoins and stringcourses. The tower does not have a parapet and features diagonal buttresses at the corners. There is a west door.
Local climate
Detached bell tower receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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