White Cottages at the Great Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Almshouses. 3 related planning applications.

White Cottages at the Great Hospital

WRENN ID
solitary-truss-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Almshouses
Address
White Cottages at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate, NR1 4EJ
OS grid reference
TG 237 090
Coordinates
52.63311, 1.30536
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cottages at The Great Hospital are almshouses built in 1826. They are constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and feature a hipped slate roof, along with six tall brick chimneys that have four shafts each. The building is single storey and has a modified range of twelve windows, which are casements with horizontal glazing bars. The central bay projects and includes a Tudor-arched ribbed door with a drip mould, flanked by two-light windows beneath a stepped gable. There are pairs of similar smaller doors on the right and left, although two of these doors are now blocked. These doors are set deeply in projecting porches that also have drip moulds. Additionally, there are single porches in a similar style at each end of the building.

Local climate

White Cottages at the Great Hospital 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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  7. Birkbeck Hall at the Great Hospital Grade II 60 m
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  9. The Swan Pit and Sluice the Great Hospital Grade II 68 m
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