Royal Arcade is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Shopping arcade. 26 related planning applications.
Royal Arcade
- WRENN ID
- quiet-pavement-sienna
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Shopping arcade
- Address
- Royal Arcade, Back of the Inns, NR2 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- TG 230 084
- Coordinates
- 52.6282, 1.29402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Royal Arcade is a shopping arcade built in 1899 by G.J. Skipper. It features a ceramic tile facing and has slate and plain tile roofs over the shops, while the arcade itself is covered with a glass and timber roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has an arcuated entry adorned with stained glass in the semi-circular top. On either side of the entry, there are bowed shop fronts with three 2-light casements on the first floor. The arcade is topped with a curvilinear pediment. To the left, there is a 20th-century shop front with a two-storey corner oriel above and two 4-light mullion and transom windows on the first floor. A curvilinear pediment is positioned at right angles to the arcade entry. Inside, the two-storey arcade features projecting timber shop fronts.
Local climate
Royal Arcade sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 26 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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