2, Tombland Alley is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. House. 1 related planning application.

2, Tombland Alley

WRENN ID
final-lead-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
House
Address
2, Tombland Alley, NR3 1HL
OS grid reference
TG 232 088
Coordinates
52.63139, 1.29814
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 2 Tombland Alley is a pair of houses that have been converted into offices. The building dates from the 17th century and features a timber frame with a rendered ground floor and roughcast above. It has a pantile roof and a roughcast end chimney on the right side. The structure is two storeys high and has two first-floor windows. To the right, there is a panelled door with a fanlight that has intersecting glazing bars. There are two steps leading up to a 20th-century door also on the right. The building has three-light casements throughout, some of which have iron frames. The first floor has a jetty that is of unequal proportions on the right and left sides.

Local climate

2, Tombland Alley 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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