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
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 To the right, there are four-light mullioned and transomed brick windows, although one has been replaced by a wooden two-light window on the second floor.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.
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