The Triumphal Arch is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1983. A Georgian Gatehouse.

The Triumphal Arch

WRENN ID
grim-oriel-peregrine
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1983
Type
Gatehouse
Period
Georgian
Address
The Triumphal Arch, the Avenue, Holkham
OS grid reference
TF 882 394
Coordinates
52.9194, 0.79839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Triumphal Arch is a Grade I gatehouse completed around 1760. It was built by Matthew Brettingham, based on a design attributed to William Kent. The structure is made of gault brick with flint rustication and stone dressings, featuring slated and lead-covered roofs. The facade has a tripartite arrangement with one wide and two narrow arched openings, each topped by plain pediments. Inside the arches, there are groined brick vaults. A string course runs at the impost level of the main arch, and there are shaped buttresses on the east and west sides of the central block. The arch is adorned with a dentilled cornice and tripartite lunette windows beneath the central pediment, with ball finials on the side wing pediments.

Local climate

The Triumphal Arch receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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