Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (Administrative Block and Main Hall) is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Hospital. 9 related planning applications.

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (Administrative Block and Main Hall)

WRENN ID
tangled-roof-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Hospital
Address
Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (Administrative Block and Main Hall), St Stephen's Road, NR1 3RA
OS grid reference
TG 226 078
Coordinates
52.62259, 1.28727
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital's Administrative Block and Main Hall is a hospital built in 1859 by E. Boardman, with Thomas Henry Wyatt as a consultant. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tiled roof, along with two ridge brick clustered chimneys and additional chimneys at the rear. Designed in the Queen Anne Revival style, the building has two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical arrangement of thirteen first-floor windows.

The central porte-cochere is notable for its balustraded stone parapet, which includes a central scrolled cartouche displaying the Royal Coat of Arms, flanked by Doric pilasters that alternate between brick and stone bands. The main facade features slightly projecting end wings, each with three windows. The first-floor bays are accentuated by pilasters, and there is a moulded brick string course and a stone band above the first-floor windows. A moulded cornice runs beneath the parapet, which is interrupted by two attic windows with stone pediments and three-shaped gables, each adorned with a window, stone dressings, and ball finials.

The segmental headed windows have glazing bars only in the top sash, with large panes below and gauged brick arches featuring key blocks. A central clock tower has a base made of alternating bands of stone and brick, with pediments above the clock face, topped by a cupola supported by six columns. There is also an octagonal tower of two storeys located at the rear.

Local climate

Norfolk and Norwich Hospital (Administrative Block and Main Hall) 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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