County Hall, Norwich
County Hall is a municipal facility at Martineau Lane in Norwich, Norfolk.History
Originally meetings of Norfolk County Council had taken place in the Shirehall in Market Avenue. 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. The house had been acquired by Jeremiah Colman MP in 1877 and was demolished to make way for County Hall.
The new county hall building was designed by Reginald Uren. Built with a steel and reinforced concrete frame and faced with glazed tiles and brick, it cost £2.5 million. Norfolk Police were accommodated within the building alongside the council chamber and committee rooms. The building was officially opened by the Queen on 24 May 1968. In August 2013, English Heritage decided not to list County Hall as the building did not meet the criteria for listing post-1945 buildings. A major refurbishment of the building was carried out at a cost of circa £60 million between 2013 and 2019.
