Borrow House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. House.
Borrow House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-frieze-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Borrow House, Willow Lane, NR2 1EU
- OS grid reference
- TG 225 086
- Coordinates
- 52.63018, 1.28755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Borrow House is a 17th-century house located on Willow Lane. It is rendered and features a pantile roof. The building is set back from the street and has two storeys with three bays. There is a door on the right side with a panelled surround, consoles, and a pediment. The house has sash windows throughout, which include glazing bars and ground floor shutters. It has a half-hipped roof and was the home of George Borrow from 1816 to 1824.
Local climate
Borrow House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2010
- No related consent applications matched
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