Part of the Former Master'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 C17 House, offices.

Part of the Former Master's House at the Great Hospital

WRENN ID
noble-cobalt-owl
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
House, offices
Address
Part of the Former Master's House at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate
OS grid reference
TG 237 090
Coordinates
52.63312, 1.30448
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Part of the former Master's House at The Great Hospital, this building dates from the 17th century and possibly has an earlier core. It is now used as offices. The structure is made of flint rubble with brick dressings on the ground floor and roughcast above, topped with a plain tile roof and featuring two brick end chimneys. The building has a two-span range that connects the cross-wing to Birkbeck Hall. The entrance hall includes a glazed door on the left, flanked by sidelights, and a casement window to the right, all with brick dressings. The first floor features a jetty and a sash window with glazing bars set in a flush fronted wooden frame. The stepped gable on the right has kneelers. Inside, there are two niches in the ground-floor passage and a two-centred arch leading to Birkbeck Hall, located on the site of the former brewhouse.

Local climate

Part of the Former Master'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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