Former Chaplain's House at the Great Hospital is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C15 House. 1 related planning application.
Former Chaplain's House at the Great Hospital
- WRENN ID
- swift-crypt-pearl
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Chaplain's House at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate, NR1 4EJ
- OS grid reference
- TG 236 090
- Coordinates
- 52.63322, 1.30405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Chaplain's House at The Great Hospital, originally built in the 15th century with later additions and remodelling, is now divided into 10 flats. The building features flint with brick dressings, rendered dormers, and a pantile roof, with three 19th-century brick ridge chimneys. It has two storeys and an attic, with ten first-floor windows.
The left section, known as Nos. 1-5, includes a six-panelled door with a plain overlight in a simple moulded doorcase, topped with a hood on consoles. This door is flanked by pairs of sash windows in flush-fronted wooden frames. There are two gabled dormers with sashes that have glazing bars and horns.
The right section, Nos. 6-10, features a six-panelled door and overlight with glazing bars in a simple moulded doorcase, accompanied by a small hood. This section has 16-pane windows set in 19th-century brickwork. There are two wide blocked window openings on the first floor with smaller sashes that have glazing bars, along with another small blocked window to the left. It also has two gabled dormers with sashes that have glazing bars and horns.
To the right, there is a carriage arch that includes one first-floor casement and 15th or 16th-century brick dressings at the rear. A steel bressummer is present at the front, and a non-framed casement at the rear has pale green glass. Additionally, there is a massive two-storey red brick extension from the 20th century at the rear. The right end of the Chaplain's House adjoins the entrance to Brikbeck Hall. The interior was not inspected during the re-survey.
Local climate
Former Chaplain's House 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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