Tower and Adjoining Retaining Wall to Rear of Number 58 is a Grade II* listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. Tower.

Tower and Adjoining Retaining Wall to Rear of Number 58

WRENN ID
tilted-rood-hyssop
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Tower
OS grid reference
TG 237 073
Coordinates
52.61821, 1.30445
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The building is a Tower House located at the rear of Number 58, dating from the early 17th century, possibly even earlier, and is contemporary with Number 54, known as the Manor House. The structure features a combination of brick and flint rubble on the lower part, with brick above, and is situated on a split-level site with three storeys and a basement.

The rear elevation includes a flight of 20th-century steps leading up to a 19th or 20th-century plank door on the right, which is topped by a three-centred arch under a moulded brick pediment. There are moulded brick string courses on the first and second floors. To the right, there are four-light mullioned and transomed brick windows, although one has been replaced by a wooden two-light window on the second floor. Blocked two-light windows are present to the left, all featuring pediments. A large window on the first floor has an iron-framed casement with rectangular leaded lights and pale green glass. The building is topped with a crenellated parapet with brick coping and a higher stair turret to the left, along with a 19th-century chimney at the north-east corner.

The right side elevation showcases a three-centred moulded brick arch leading to a cellar door, a wooden mullioned and transomed window on the ground floor, and rebuilt four-light brick windows above. The interior is mostly from the 19th century, including stairs that occupy the site of the original staircase. There is one chamfered and stopped girder on the first floor and a barrel-vaulted cellar.

The high retaining wall and adjoining tower to the south-west are constructed of flint and brick rubble, featuring vertical brick lacing, brick coping, and three tapering buttresses. While some repairs have been made, much of the brickwork resembles that of the tower.

Local climate

Tower and Adjoining Retaining Wall to Rear of Number 58 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. Tower House Grade II 17 m
  2. South East and South West Boundary to Wall to Number 54 Grade II 43 m
  3. Manor House Grade II* 58 m
  4. 45 and 47, Bracondale Grade II 72 m
  5. Numbers 33 and 35 and Attached Garden Wall to East of Number 35 Grade II 92 m
  6. 31, Bracondale Grade II 97 m
  7. 29 and 29a, Bracondale Grade II 110 m
  8. 1, 1a, 8a, 1b, Ice House Lane Grade II 117 m
  9. 25 and 27, Bracondale Grade II 129 m
  10. Peppers Grade II 156 m