121, Gissing Road is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. A C17 House.
121, Gissing Road
- WRENN ID
- fossil-foundation-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- 121, Gissing Road, Burston and Shimpling
- OS grid reference
- TM 140 836
- Coordinates
- 52.4093, 1.14601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 121 Gissing Road is a 17th-century timber-framed house that has been divided into two sections and encased in brick in the 20th century. It features a steep black glazed pantile roof with gabled ends and a central brick chimney stack with grouped lozenge-shaped shafts. The house has two storeys and two widely spaced windows with modern casements, as well as two modern plank doors. At the rear, there is a two-storey lean-to addition from the 19th century. Inside, the property has stopped and chamfered ceiling beams and wide joists.
Local climate
121, Gissing Road sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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