Archway Approximately 160 Metres West South West of County Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Archway.
Archway Approximately 160 Metres West South West of County Hall
- WRENN ID
- strange-chamber-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1986
- Type
- Archway
- OS grid reference
- TG 237 069
- Coordinates
- 52.614, 1.30415
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The archway, located approximately 160 metres west-southwest of County Hall in Norwich, is a garden building dating from around 1800. It was originally part of Bracondale Lodge, which was demolished in the 1960s. The archway incorporates late 12th century and 14th century carved stone mouldings of ecclesiastical origin. It is believed to have been designed either by William Wilkins, the architect of Bracondale Lodge, or by Humphry Repton, who was responsible for the landscape design. The structure is built from flint and brick, with ashlar dressings and an ashlar facade on the eastern side. It features a two-centred archway topped with a pediment, a roll-moulded archway, and a 14th century octofoil opening in the tympanum above. The archway also has moulded cornices and an inscription with the letters M.C.I. in the tympanum.
Local climate
Archway Approximately 160 Metres West South West of County Hall 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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