11 and 13, Wensum Street is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Shop and restaurant. 2 related planning applications.

11 and 13, Wensum Street

WRENN ID
sleeping-bastion-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Shop and restaurant
Address
11 and 13, Wensum Street, NR3 1LA
OS grid reference
TG 232 089
Coordinates
52.63244, 1.29795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 11 and 13 Wensum Street is a building that was originally of unknown use and is now occupied by shops and a restaurant. It features a 15th-century undercroft and was heightened in the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 20th century. The exterior is rendered and topped with a black pantile roof. The building stands three stories tall and has a jettied first floor. The second floor has windows, while the left side has a three-bay shopfront with attached fluted columns that support a fascia. There is a central entry to a shopping arcade with a casement window to the side, and a tall two-storey shopfront on the right side. Casement windows are present throughout, and there is a flat modillion cornice. Beneath the street level, the remains of a brick-built undercroft from the 15th century can be seen, with two surviving side chambers featuring four-centred profiles; one extends beneath the street and the other is located in the north wall of the cellar. To the south of the former chamber is a part of a blocked opening that may represent another side chamber or a doorway.

Local climate

11 and 13, Wensum Street 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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