Nelsons Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Restaurant, dwelling. 1 related planning application.
Nelsons Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-hearth-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Restaurant, dwelling
- Address
- Nelsons Restaurant, High Street, North Elmham, NR20 5JX
- OS grid reference
- TF 986 216
- Coordinates
- 52.75579, 0.94254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nelson's Restaurant is a former shop, now a restaurant and dwelling, dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the 18th and later centuries. A fragmentary timber frame is visible in the rear wall of the main block. The building has a colourwashed brick facade and pantile roofs.
The front of the building features two storeys and four bays, dating to the early 19th century. It has 2-light and 3-light mullion and transom windows. A particularly wide boarded door is located at the south end of the facade, with a part-glazed panelled door beneath a cambered arch in the centre, and an early 19th-century shop front with a central glazed door at the northern end. The shop windows have segmental heads and cusped fan spandrel motifs. The north gable has a tumbled-in detail. The building has one off-centre axial stack and one northern gable-end stack. Later lean-tos have been added to the rear.
Inside, a notable feature is a fine early 19th-century reeded fire surround with corner roundels. Several raised and fielded panelled doors are also present.
Local climate
Nelsons Restaurant receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- 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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