Orwell House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Orwell House
- WRENN ID
- slow-remnant-cedar
- 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
- Orwell House, 22, Station Street, Swaffham, PE37 7LH
- OS grid reference
- TF 819 091
- Coordinates
- 52.64995, 0.68863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orwell House is a house dating from circa 1740, with a front block added in the 1820s. It is constructed of red brick with a pantiled roof. The front facade is two storeys and five windows wide, featuring a central six-panelled door with a five-vaned fanlight. The door is set within a doorcase featuring pilasters, a block entablature, and an open pediment, with panelled reveals and a soffit. The windows are six-over-six unhorned sash windows with gauged skewback arches, and late 20th-century secondary external glazing. A platband runs along the first floor, and a dentil eaves cornice tops the front. The gabled roof has internal gable-end stacks to the north and south, with tumbling in the gable heads. There is a rear wing of two storeys and a dormer attic. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
Orwell House 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 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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