Churchman House is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C18 House, office. 5 related planning applications.

Churchman House

WRENN ID
sacred-rubble-sorrel
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
House, office
Address
Churchman House, 71, Bethel Street, NR2 1NR
OS grid reference
TG 225 085
Coordinates
52.62907, 1.28747
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Churchman House is a former house, now used as offices, dating from around 1730 with 19th-century alterations and an addition. The building is constructed of red brick and features a pantile roof with an L-shaped plan. It has two storeys and a plinth, with seven bays; the central three bays project and are accentuated by rusticated quoins. The central entrance includes a door with a rectangular fanlight, flanked by attached Tuscan columns, and is topped by a frieze decorated with archery-related motifs and a pediment. There is a small 19th-century door at the far left. The building has sash windows throughout, each with rubbed brick flat arches. The central window on the first floor has a segmental top sash and an arch with a haunched rusticated surround. A modillion cornice runs along the top, and there is a pediment above the three central bays featuring a three-light lunette. The roof is hipped with two spans. Inside, there are fine details including wall paintings framed in elaborate plasterwork and a stucco ceiling with a central oval landscape. The fireplace is by T. Cheere.

Local climate

Churchman 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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