The Limes and Attached Garden Walls is a Grade II* listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1952. A C17 House. 6 related planning applications.
The Limes and Attached Garden Walls
- WRENN ID
- guardian-portal-auburn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Limes and Attached Garden Walls, Wroxham Road, Coltishall, Broadland, NR12 7EA
- OS grid reference
- TG 276 198
- Coordinates
- 52.72823, 1.36929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Limes is a house dated 1692, constructed of red brick and featuring black pantiles, slate, and 20th-century tiles at the rear. It is a two-storey building with attics and has early 19th-century wings that project north towards the road, creating a U-shaped plan. There is a lean-to addition on the west side. The facade displays seven windows arranged in three bays, with the outer bays slightly projecting and having hipped roofs. The building has a brick plinth, rusticated brick quoins, and a moulded brick platband at the first-floor level.
The central entrance features a moulded two-panel door framed by a moulded timber surround, with a gauged brick door surround, brick pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment. The early 19th-century sash windows are in their original openings and have glazing bars, with flat gauged brick arches above them. The eaves are moulded, and the hipped roof has end stacks that were partially rebuilt in the late 20th century. A chimney on the west side has dated tie irons.
At the rear, the first-floor windows are 18th-century, featuring tran-somed two-light designs with wrought iron casements. There is also an off-centre five-panelled door in a moulded timber frame with a segmental brick arch above it. The building has two segmental-headed dormers with two-light casements. Inside, there is a three-flight 17th-century staircase with moulded strings, urn-shaped balusters, and square-capped newels. The interior also includes two-panel doors with moulded timber architraves and over-doors, as well as a pine-panelled drawing room that features a 17th-century moulded timber fire surround.
Local climate
The Limes and Attached Garden Walls sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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