Tipsy Toad Wine Bar is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Wine bar.
Tipsy Toad Wine Bar
- WRENN ID
- distant-stronghold-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Wine bar
- Address
- Tipsy Toad Wine Bar, Market Place, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 830
- Coordinates
- 52.41299, 0.75089
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tipsy Toad Wine Bar, originally a mechanics' institute and later a public library, was built in 1887. It features gault brick construction under a slate roof and is a single-storey building with five bays facing the Market Place. Each bay is separated by Tuscan pilasters or columns made of rendered brick. The central bay contains half-glazed double-leaf doors set beneath a round arch, with two round-headed 20th-century plate-glass windows on either side. The building has a rendered entablature and a parapet, topped by a tall central gable that has a recessed panel with a cartouche, flanked by niches on either side. The roofs are gabled. To the right, there is a two-bay link connecting to the Guildhall, which features a round-headed sash window with 6/6 glazing bars and a round-headed doorway. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Tipsy Toad Wine Bar sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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