26, The Close is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Georgian House. 1 related planning application.
26, The Close
- WRENN ID
- plain-gateway-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 26, The Close, NR1 4DZ
- OS grid reference
- TG 237 087
- Coordinates
- 52.63067, 1.30452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 26 The Close is an early 19th-century house constructed of red brick with a pantile roof. The building stands two storeys high and features three bays. The central door is flanked by two attached fluted Doric columns and has a triglyph frieze architrave topped with a small hood. Above the door is a rectangular fanlight adorned with intricate curvilinear tracery. To the left, there is a two-storey bay window. The property has sash windows throughout, which include glazing bars and rubbed brick flat arches. The roof is hipped, and access to the street is via five steps that are accompanied by cast-iron railings. Additionally, there are footscrapers and two decorated coal hole covers.
Local climate
26, The Close 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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