Anna Sewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
Anna Sewell House
- WRENN ID
- ruined-hinge-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Norwich North MP: Alice Macdonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Anna Sewell House, Spixworth Road, Old Catton, NR6 7DU
- OS grid reference
- TG 234 121
- Coordinates
- 52.66121, 1.30237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Anna Sewell House is an 18th-century brick house with a black pantile roof, located on Spixworth Road, Old Catton. Originally listed as Beechwood, it has an "L" shape, with the eastern wing slightly lower. The house is attached to an adjoining building. The east facade has three bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars and segmental brick arches over the ground-floor openings. The south facade has two bays, with a five-panel part-glazed door set within a timber doorcase featuring a moulded architrave, key block, and a projecting pediment on consoles. Sash windows with glazing bars are also present on the south facade, along with a first-floor casement window to the right. The house has a rendered plinth, timber bracketed eaves, parapet gables with brick kneelers and stone copings, and end stacks. Axial stacks are located on the north and south ranges, and at the roof intersection. Anna Sewell, author of “Black Beauty,” lived at the house from 1867 to 1878.
Local climate
Anna Sewell 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 3 applications
- 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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