County Hall, Norwich

County Hall is a municipal facility at Martineau Lane in Norwich, Norfolk.

County Hall, Norwich
County Hall
County Hall
Location within Norfolk
General information
AddressMartineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk
CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates52.6150°N 1.3073°E / 52.6150; 1.3073
Completed1968
Design and construction
ArchitectReginald Uren

History

Originally meetings of Norfolk County Council had taken place in the Shirehall in Market Avenue.[1] By the 1960s the County Council were seeking a larger facility and identified a site which was occupied by a country house which had been commissioned by Dr Philip Meadows Martineau, a clinician at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, in 1793.[2] The house had been acquired by Jeremiah Colman MP in 1877 and was demolished to make way for County Hall.[2]

The new county hall building was designed by Reginald Uren.[3] Built with a steel and reinforced concrete frame and faced with glazed tiles and brick, it cost £2.5 million.[4] Norfolk Police were accommodated within the building alongside the council chamber and committee rooms.[4] The building was officially opened by the Queen on 24 May 1968.[5] In August 2013, English Heritage decided not to list County Hall as the building did not meet the criteria for listing post-1945 buildings.[4] A major refurbishment of the building was carried out at a cost of circa £60 million between 2013 and 2019.[6]

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References
  1. "History of Norfolk County Council". Norfolk County Archives. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  2. "Distinguished doctor who lived in fine style". Norwich Evening News. 18 August 2004. Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  3. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (2002) [1962]. Norfolk 2: North-west and South. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Yale University Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-300-09657-6.
  4. "County Hall". Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  5. "Queen opens new County Hall". Anglia Television. 1968. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. "As Norfolk faces cuts and council tax hike, revamp bill for County Hall soars by extra £24m". Eastern Daily Press. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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