38 and 40, Bethel Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A Georgian Office.
38 and 40, Bethel Street
- WRENN ID
- grey-tallow-smoke
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Office
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- TG 227 084
- Coordinates
- 52.62838, 1.28957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38 and 40 Bethel Street is a former house that has been converted into an office. It dates back to the 18th century and is constructed of red brick with a black pantile roof. The building stands three stories tall and features five bays. The central entrance has a door flanked by Ionic columns, which support a pulvinated frieze and a pediment. The door is surrounded by a moulded and eared inner frame with a keystone. Throughout the building, there are sash windows with glazing bars, and the windows are topped with rubbled brick flat arches that also include keystones. Notably, there is one 17th-century window located in the rear wall. The building is accented by rusticated brick quoins and has a box cornice. The roof is hipped. Inside, there is a fine central staircase and high-quality paneling and fireplace details in the east room on the ground floor.
Local climate
38 and 40, Bethel Street 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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