Castle Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Office. 2 related planning applications.

Castle Chambers

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1986
Type
Office
Address
Castle Chambers, Opie Street, NR1 3DP
OS grid reference
TG 231 086
Coordinates
52.62958, 1.29651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Castle Chambers is an office building dated 1877, as indicated by a plaque. It is constructed of yellow brick and features a hipped slate roof with a hipped dormer. The building stands three storeys tall, plus a half basement, and has five bays, with the three central bays projecting forward. The plinth, quoins, and pilasters exhibit horizontal rustication. The sash windows are topped with flat arches that are decorated with floral roundels and the monogram CHS, along with flinted architraves and hood moulds. The central door is framed by a segmental pediment supported by paired consoles and scroll brackets. Above the three central bays, there are cornice brackets beneath a moulded cornice.

Local climate

Castle Chambers 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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