31, Gentleman's Walk is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1986. Shop. 7 related planning applications.
31, Gentleman's Walk
- WRENN ID
- seventh-lintel-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1986
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 31, Gentleman's Walk, NR2 1NB
- OS grid reference
- TG 229 084
- Coordinates
- 52.628, 1.29312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 31 Gentleman’s Walk is a 19th-century shop located on a corner site. The building is constructed of brick with stucco detailing and features hipped slate and tile roofs. It has four storeys and four bays facing Gentleman’s Walk. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front, while the first floor showcases Corinthian pilasters and a cornice that supports plain pilasters with egg and dart capitals. There is a cornice on the second floor, and sash windows with semi-circular top lights are framed by raised and panelled surrounds with keystone and impost moulding.
The Market Place facade displays a pyramidal window arrangement of three, two, and one on the top floor, with paired pilasters. The western half of this facade projects forward and features quoins, suggesting it may have been treated as or originally been a separate building. The first floor design continues, but the lower second and third floors have sash windows with rubbed brick flat arches. A projecting moulded cornice and parapet complete the exterior.
Possibly there are 14th-century undercrofts. To the west of the 19th-century cellar extending beneath Weaver's Lane are two possibly 14th-century rendered brick side chambers, both with a four-centred profile. The southern chamber is arranged at right angles, while the other, higher chamber runs parallel to the building above. The orientation of the latter is unusual and seems to pre-date the known 14th-century layout of the market and the extension of the grounds of St. Peter Mancroft.
Local climate
31, Gentleman's Walk 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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