8, Guildhall Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C18 Office, wine-bar. 4 related planning applications.
8, Guildhall Hill
- WRENN ID
- deep-obsidian-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Office, wine-bar
- Address
- 8, Guildhall Hill, NR2 1JG
- OS grid reference
- TG 229 086
- Coordinates
- 52.62935, 1.29314
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8, Guildhall Hill is an 18th-century former house, now used as offices and a wine bar. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with a semi-basement, and comprises five bays. A central door is accessed by five steps and has a rectangular fanlight, a reeded surround, an architrave, vegetal corner roundels, and a small flat hood. Sash windows with glazing bars are present throughout. The ground floor windows are set within brick flat arches. A small bracket cornice sits above the first-floor windows. Three flat-roofed dormers are visible. Fine cast-iron railings run along the basement wells.
Local climate
8, Guildhall Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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