Sewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1953. House, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Sewell House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gutter-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1953
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- Sewell House, 26, Church Plain, NR30 1NE
- OS grid reference
- TG 524 079
- Coordinates
- 52.6107, 1.7271
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sewell House is a house that has been converted into a restaurant, likely originating in the early 17th century when it was built as part of No. 27. The building features rendered and whitewashed brick with re-used timber elements and has a pantiled roof. It stands two storeys high with a dormer attic and a single window range. The facade was extended in 1932 by A.W. Ecclestone, using materials salvaged by Harry Johnson. The ground floor has a 4-light mullioned cross casement window that was salvaged from a house in Row 51, while the first floor has a 3-light casement window and the attic features a 2-light window. There is a small dormer behind the gable, also added in 1932, and the roof is gabled.
Inside, there is a 20th-century winder staircase, and the roof consists of principal rafters with one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins. Historically, this house is notable as the birthplace of Anna Sewell (1820-1878), where she wrote her famous book, Black Beauty.
Local climate
Sewell House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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