Shire House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Court.
Shire House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-beam-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Court
- Address
- Shire House, Market Avenue, NR1 3JQ
- OS grid reference
- TG 232 085
- Coordinates
- 52.62875, 1.29743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shire House, formerly known as Shire Hall, is a Grade II listed building located on Market Avenue. It was constructed between 1822 and 1823 by architect William Wilkins and was refaced in 1913. The building is made of red brick with stone dressings and features a Neo-Tudor style, standing two storeys tall.
The façade consists of nine bays arranged in the pattern of 1:1:2:1:2:1:1, with the central bay projecting and the end bays recessed. The central entry is highlighted by a moulded four-centre arch and is flanked by polygonal turrets topped with castellated parapets. Above the entry, there is a three-light "Perpendicular" window. The doors in the penultimate outer bays also have moulded four-centre arches, with the right-side door blocked and replaced by a 20th-century window.
Throughout the building, there are three-light windows featuring cusped arches and square dripmoulds, with the bays defined by the turrets. A stringcourse runs along the first floor, and there is a moulded cornice beneath the castellated parapet, which has small gables above the outer door bays.
Local climate
Shire 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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