Old Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1977. Town hall. 1 related planning application.
Old Town Hall
- WRENN ID
- grim-brass-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1977
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Old Town Hall, Prince of Wales Road, Cromer, NR27 9HS
- OS grid reference
- TG 217 421
- Coordinates
- 52.93137, 1.29747
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Town Hall, built in 1890 by George Skipper, is a two-storey brick building with a painted front and a tiled roof featuring gabled ends. It is five bays wide, with the center bay projecting and topped by a pediment that includes a tympanum depicting a sailing ship. The building has a moulded eaves cornice adorned with dentils.
On the first floor, there are fluted and rusticated brick pilasters with 2, 3, and 4-light mullion windows, each topped with three-centred arch heads. The ground floor features a central three-centred arch doorway with voussoirs, flanked by small rectangular sash windows that have drip moulds above. Between the first and ground floors, there are rectangular moulded panels displaying shields and a cartouche above the doorway, which bears the inscription "Town Hall 1890." The structure also has moulded string courses and a plinth.
Brick chimney stacks with cornices rise from the gable ends. The south end gable is designed as a pediment, with a chimney breast running through it and two windows on either side that match the design of the front. A long range at the back is constructed of plain brick, featuring buttressed walls and brick dentil eaves.
Local climate
Old Town Hall 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 greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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