Garsett House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. House, office. 4 related planning applications.
Garsett House
- WRENN ID
- half-steeple-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Garsett House, 1, Princes Street, NR3 1AU
- OS grid reference
- TG 231 087
- Coordinates
- 52.63066, 1.29608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garsett House is a 16th-century house that has been converted into an office. It features a timber frame that is rendered, with a hipped pantile roof and a brick chimney on the left side. The building stands three storeys tall, with the first and second floors jettied on decorated corner brackets, although one of these brackets is broken. The Princes Street facade has two second-floor windows, while the ground floor displays blocked 16th-century windows with four-centred heads and moulded surrounds. There is a tripartite sash window on the ground floor that has glazing bars only in the upper half. A renewed oriel window on the first floor is supported by brackets and features diamond leaded lights. One of the second-floor sash windows has glazing bars and horns, while the lights of another have been blocked.
On the side elevation facing St. George's Street, there is a step leading up to a six-panelled door with a plain overlight, panelled reveals, and an 18th-century hood that has a triglyph frieze supported by two plastered and two fluted Doric columns. The upper floors contain sash windows, and the rear elevation facing St. Andrew Street has scattered mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights. A corbelled chimney is topped with a pediment above a tablet that bears the name 'Armada House' along with a representation of a 16th-century ship. The building also features two Dutch-style gables.
Local climate
Garsett 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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