Opie House is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A C18 Office. 2 related planning applications.
Opie House
- WRENN ID
- endless-parapet-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Opie House, 26, Castle Meadow, NR1 3DS
- OS grid reference
- TG 232 086
- Coordinates
- 52.62949, 1.2967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Opie House is a former house, now used as an office, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rendered brick and covered with black pantiles. The building stands three storeys high and features three bays. The central door, which is from the 19th century, is flanked by attached columns that support an ornate over-door. To the right of the door is a 19th-century canted bay window, which has triple attached shafts with crocket capitals and decorative lintels. The other windows are sash windows with glazing bars and simply moulded surrounds. There is horizontal rustication on the plinth to the left of the door and rusticated quoins on the corners. The building is topped with a paired bracket cornice. A plaque commemorates Amelia Opie, who lived in this house or an adjoining one.
Local climate
Opie 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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