1 London Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Shop and warehouse. 2 related planning applications.
1 London Street
- WRENN ID
- blind-steel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1973
- Type
- Shop and warehouse
- Address
- 1 London Street, Swaffham, PE37 7DD
- OS grid reference
- TF 820 088
- Coordinates
- 52.64688, 0.68895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 19th-century shop and warehouse was later used as shops and offices, and converted into three residential units and a shop in 2020. The building is constructed of flint and red brick laid in Flemish bond, with a slate roof. It is rectangular in plan, facing west onto the Market Place, with numbers 2 and 4 continuing east along Pit Lane.
The building is three storeys high, with a hipped roof to the west end and a gabled roof to the east end, featuring a central ridge chimney stack. A decorative dentilled eaves cornice runs along the top of the building, and all the window openings below the attic level have arched heads. The north elevation is four window bays wide. The attic floor has four casement windows. The first floor has four six-over-six pane sash windows, and the ground floor has four six-over-six pane sash windows, plus one eight-over-eight pane sash window. The shopfront facade on London Street was replaced in 2021, retaining the early 20th-century glazed white tile stall riser. The east elevation has one eight-over-eight pane sash window on the first floor, and a 20th-century two-light casement window on the attic floor.
Internally, two winder stairs remain, along with a beam in the front room featuring stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops, and a single brick lintelled fireplace.
Local climate
1 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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