Town Hall and attached front railings is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. Civic. 1 related planning application.

Town Hall and attached front railings

WRENN ID
empty-gable-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
Civic
Address
Town Hall and attached front railings, 4 London Street, Swaffham, PE37 7DQ
OS grid reference
TF 819 088
Coordinates
52.64675, 0.68834
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Town Hall, originally built as a house in the early 19th century, was converted into a Town Hall and Museum in the late 20th century.

Constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a slate roof, the building faces east onto London Street and has an approximately rectangular plan with a rear extension. A larger extension was added to the west around 2003.

This two-storey building, which includes a dormer attic, features three window bays under a gabled roof, with the window bays slightly projecting forward. There is one chimney stack on the rear roof slope to the left and another on the front roof slope to the right. The roof has three flat-topped dormers fitted with two-over-two pane horned sashes. On the first floor, there are three four-over-four pane horned sash windows with gauged skewback arches. Flanking the main entrance are two large two-over-two pane horned sash windows under arched heads with painted arched hoods. The central entrance features a six-panelled door set within a Greek Doric doorcase, which includes two columns and two pilasters supporting an entablature.

Inside, the Council Chamber, which was formerly the dining room, has two fluted Greek Doric columns at the south end, moulded cornices, and a late 19th-century marble chimneypiece. The entrance hall contains a late 19th-century stick-baluster staircase with panelled newel posts.

The property is complemented by circular-section wrought-iron railings along the street.

Local climate

Town Hall and attached front railings 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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