Hardwick House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1970. Former bank. 11 related planning applications.
Hardwick House
- WRENN ID
- turning-mantel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1970
- Type
- Former bank
- Address
- Hardwick House, 2, Agricultural Hall Plain, NR1 1DB
- OS grid reference
- TG 233 085
- Coordinates
- 52.62894, 1.29895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hardwick House is a former bank, later used as a Post Office and now offices, dating to 1866. It was designed by P.C. Hardwick and has undergone 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of bath stone and has a concealed roof. Situated on a corner plot, the primary elevation faces Agricultural Hall Plain. It features three bays, with a single-storey bay on each side. A paired tetrastyle Ionic portico with six steps and a balustraded parapet extends across the outer single-storey bays. The central entrance has a semi-circular arch with 20th-century glazed doors. Sash windows with raised, moulded surrounds are positioned on either side of the entrance. The outer bays also have sash windows, each topped with a pediment. First-floor casement windows are arched with scroll keystones. Rusticated quoins are present. Above the central entrance is an open pediment adorned with garlands and a crown. A projecting balustraded cornice runs along the top. The elevation facing King Street is seven bays wide, with one storey plus a semi-basement, and a deeply recessed second storey. The first and seventh bays slightly project, each with a sash window within a raised, moulded surround.
Local climate
Hardwick 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 47 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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