6-11, Railway Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1982. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

6-11, Railway Cottages

WRENN ID
dusk-remnant-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 April 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
6-11, Railway Cottages, Hardy Road, NR1 1JW
OS grid reference
TG 244 079
Coordinates
52.62297, 1.31455
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

A terrace of six former railway workers' cottages, dating from the mid-19th century (1847). Designed by Grissell & Peto, architects and builders for the Norfolk Railway Company, the cottages are constructed of red brick with yellow brick detailing, and are largely rendered. They have slate roofs and brick chimneys. The terrace is single-storey with an attic, and has a twelve-window front. The end cottages project slightly. Each cottage has a centrally located door with a projecting porch featuring a four-centred arch and a pediment, flanked by casement windows, which are mostly replacements with 20th-century plate glass. A plain brick string course runs along the front, and there are gabled half-dormers in the roof. A single-storey lean-to extension is attached to the left.

These cottages are part of a unique group of planned workers’ dwellings in Norwich, arranged around a roughly triangular common drying yard paved with flint and cobbles.

Local climate

6-11, Railway Cottages 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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  • Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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