The Great Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A C15 Workshop. 1 related planning application.

The Great Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Workshop
Address
The Great Hall, Oak Street, NR3 3BP
OS grid reference
TG 226 094
Coordinates
52.63701, 1.28842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Great Hall is a 15th-century hall-house that has been altered in the 17th century and renovated in the 20th century. It now serves as a workshop. The building is constructed of flint with some brick dressings, and has a pantile roof. It is set back and at a right angle to the street line.

The south elevation has scattered windows. A blocked door, featuring a moulded four-centre arch with plain spandrels, is located at the extreme left. A central projecting bay, which replaces what was originally a 15th-century oriel window, has been extended to the right. There is an off-centre entrance, with a two-light window to the right, and a five-light frieze window above. A six-light frieze window is placed above the entrance door at first-floor level. A 17th-century stair window is on the right side. The north elevation features a large, twelve-light mullion and transom window on the ground floor, and two first-floor frieze windows.

Inside, a full-height oriel arch is present, with a four-centre arch and three orders of mouldings. A queen-post roof is partly remade in the 20th century.

Local climate

The Great 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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