5, Bank Plain is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Office. 1 related planning application.
5, Bank Plain
- WRENN ID
- young-outpost-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1986
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 5, Bank Plain, NR2 4SF
- OS grid reference
- TG 232 086
- Coordinates
- 52.6301, 1.2974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Bank Plain is an office building constructed in 1899 by E. Boardman. It is built of ashlar and has three storeys with a symmetrical three-window range. The bays are defined by pilasters on the upper floors. The ground floor features a round-headed arcade supported by part-fluted half-columns, with part-fluted Corinthian pilasters at either end and flanking a central door. Above, there is a plain entablature with a moulded cornice that includes consoles supporting a central segmental balcony with a balustrade. The first and second floors have tripartite windows on the right and left, featuring large-pane sashes set in moulded architraves, with pediments above the first-floor windows. The building is topped with a dentilled eaves cornice beneath a parapet that also has a balustrade. To the left, facing Queen Street, there is a similar two-window range.
Local climate
5, Bank Plain 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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