The Watch House is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1977. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Watch House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-gable-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Watch House, East Cliff, Cromer, NR27 9ET
- OS grid reference
- TG 221 421
- Coordinates
- 52.93086, 1.3041
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House is an early 19th-century building located on East Cliff. It features a stucco exterior and a newly tiled roof with both gabled and hipped ends. The structure is two storeys tall and has three sash windows with glazing bars. On the left side, there is a two-storeyed splayed bay also containing sash windows with glazing bars. To the right, there is a 20th-century two-storeyed wing that is weatherboarded and has a flat roof, which includes three sash windows with glazing bars and a one-storey projecting wing in front that has a splayed bay of sash windows with glazing bars. Additionally, there is a splayed bay of sash windows with glazing bars on the east end wall.
Local climate
The Watch House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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