Assembly Room is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 August 1951. Assembly room.
Assembly Room
- WRENN ID
- proud-garret-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1951
- Type
- Assembly room
- Address
- Assembly Room, Market Place, Dereham
- OS grid reference
- TF 988 134
- Coordinates
- 52.6821, 0.94018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Assembly Room, built in 1756 with later alterations, is constructed of red brick and covered with pantiles. It features a hipped roof and overhanging wooden eaves cornice. The building is two storeys high and has five sash windows, which are arched on the first floor and have radial glazing bars at the top. The ground floor was originally open on the south side and includes a doorway with a patterned fanlight. Currently, the ground floor houses the UDC offices.
Local climate
Assembly Room 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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