5, St Nicholas Street is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
5, St Nicholas Street
- WRENN ID
- secret-banister-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, St Nicholas Street, Diss, IP22 4LB
- OS grid reference
- TM 116 800
- Coordinates
- 52.37741, 1.10825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 5 on St Nicholas Street is an early 19th-century building that stands three stories tall and features three windows, including one above a high vehicle entrance. The building has flush frame sash windows, with the top windows still retaining their glazing bars. The exterior is finished in plaster and covered with pantiles. The mid-19th-century shop front includes decorative scroll consoles, central double doors, and a fanlight. To the left, there is a splayed two-storey wing that has a similar shop window on the ground floor and another on the first floor. This building is part of a group that includes numbers 2 to 6A.
Local climate
5, St Nicholas Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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