Colman House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C17 House, factory. 1 related planning application.
Colman House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-column-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- House, factory
- Address
- Colman House, Pottergate, NR2 1DY
- OS grid reference
- TG 227 087
- Coordinates
- 52.63062, 1.28947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colman House is an early 17th-century house that was later converted into a factory and is undergoing restoration. The building was heightened, refaced, and extended in the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with a pantile roof and stands three stories high. The symmetrical facade has five bays, plus an additional bay to the right. The central doorway features a rusticated surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a small flat hood, accompanied by rusticated pilasters. The windows are sash windows, featuring glazing bars and flat rubbed brick arches with keystones. Pilasters flank the central window on the first floor. A moulded brick cornice tops the facade. Inside, a fine 17th-century stone fireplace surround with carved spandrels is located on the first floor. The building's architecture is discussed in R. Smith and A. Carter’s "Function and Site: Aspects of Norwich Buildings," published in 1983.
Local climate
Colman 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 41 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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