2, 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.
2, St Nicholas Street
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rafter-storm
- 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
- 2, St Nicholas Street, Diss, IP22 4LB
- OS grid reference
- TM 116 800
- Coordinates
- 52.37741, 1.10859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 St Nicholas Street is a 17th-century building that stands two stories high with an attic. It features two gabled dormers and a steep pantiled roof. The first floor has two flush frame sash windows, each with central glazing bars. The exterior is plastered and colourwashed, with an eaves soffit and an overhanging first floor. The ground floor has an early 19th-century wooden shop front, which includes channelled pilasters and a central entrance with a six-panel door on the left, accessed by steps. Nos. 2 to 6A St Nicholas Street form a group.
Local climate
2, 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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- 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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