2 and 4, Hardy Road is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
2 and 4, Hardy Road
- WRENN ID
- mired-balcony-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 2 and 4, Hardy Road, NR1 1JN
- OS grid reference
- TG 244 079
- Coordinates
- 52.62288, 1.31397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of former railway workers' cottages dating from the mid-19th century (1847), designed by Grissell & Peto, the builders and architects for the Norfolk Railway Company. The cottages are built of red brick, with a rendered finish and original yellow brick detailing; they have a slate roof and a central brick chimney. The design is of a single storey with an attic, featuring a four-window front. Contemporary doors are situated in the centre of each cottage, set within original projecting porches with four-centred arched heads and pediments. Number 4 retains original ground-floor casement windows, while Number 2 has 20th-century plate glass windows. A plain brick string course runs along the front. The roof has gabled half-dormers, most with 20th-century plate glass windows.
The cottages are part of a unique group of planned workers' dwellings in Norwich, arranged around a roughly triangular common yard constructed with flint and cobbles. Previously known as Railway Cottages, they are part of an associated development located in Cozens Road.
Local climate
2 and 4, Hardy Road 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 — 4 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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