14a, The Close is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A C17 House.
14a, The Close
- WRENN ID
- pitched-garret-raven
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TG 236 087
- Coordinates
- 52.63036, 1.30302
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14A The Close is a house dating from the 19th century, with a core from the 17th century. It features a flint plinth and rendered, painted brickwork, topped with pantile roofs. The building has a three-storey rear block and an off-axis two-storey front block, which is accompanied by single-storey side blocks. The central doorway of the two-storey block has a bolection panelled door, flanked by flat pilasters with a fluted architrave and a rectangular fanlight above. There are small casement windows on either side. The left single-storey block contains a 17th-century casement, while the right block has a 20th-century casement. Above the central door, there is a 19th-century mullion and transom window. Additionally, there is a 19th-century three-light casement window located to the left of centre in the rear block. The single-storey blocks have forward sloping monopitch roofs.
Local climate
14a, The Close 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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