5 and 7 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House.
5 and 7 London Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-cellar-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5 and 7 London Street, Swaffham, PE37 7DD
- OS grid reference
- TF 820 088
- Coordinates
- 52.64659, 0.68903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
5 and 7 London Street are a pair of early 18th century houses that were altered around 1760 and again in the late 20th century.
The buildings are made of red brick laid in a variation of Flemish bond and feature pantile roofs. They face west onto London Street and are roughly rectangular in shape with extensions at the rear.
The houses are two stories tall with a dormer attic. The gabled roof has four flat-topped 20th-century dormers fitted with two-light casements. There are internal gable-end chimney stacks on both the north and south sides. The north gable displays the roofline of the early 18th-century house, with brick tumbling. The principal elevation is symmetrical, featuring quoins and a moulded eaves cornice, and is seven window bays wide. The windows are six-over-six pane sashes set under segmental gauged skewback arches, with the central windows on each floor being blind. Each house has a doorway in the penultimate bays to the right and left, with timber doorcases that have hoods on console brackets. 5 London Street has a double-leaf six-panelled door, while 7 London Street has a four-panelled 20th-century door. Both buildings were converted into two restaurants in the late 20th century.
Inside, 5 London Street features chamfered bridging beams, and the ground-floor front rooms have been opened into a single space. 7 London Street retains an early 19th-century brick fireplace.
Local climate
5 and 7 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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