Birkbeck Hall at the Great Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. Hall. 2 related planning applications.

Birkbeck Hall at the Great Hospital

WRENN ID
final-basalt-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Hall
Address
Birkbeck Hall at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate, NR1 4EJ
OS grid reference
TG 237 090
Coordinates
52.63323, 1.30449
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Birkbeck Hall at The Great Hospital is a hall built in 1901 by E. Beardman, incorporating fragments of medieval fabric. The building is constructed of flint and red brick, featuring red brick dressings and stone details, with a pantile roof and two brick end chimneys. It has five bays defined by buttresses, with the south bay adjoining a passage arch of the Chaplain's House, which has a Tudor-style arch bearing the date 1901 in its spandrels. The hall is characterized by tall two-light mullioned and transomed windows and stepped brick gables. Notably, medieval masonry can be found in the buttresses on the east side. Inside, there is a mock inglenook fireplace at the north end and a smaller fireplace at the south end.

Local climate

Birkbeck Hall 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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