County Hall, Norwich

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

For much of the 20th century meetings of Norfolk County Council had taken place in the Shirehall in Market Avenue.

[2] After deciding that the existing premises were inadequate for their needs, county leaders decided to procure a new building: the site they selected had been occupied by Bracondale Lodge, a country house which had been commissioned by Dr Philip Meadows Martineau, a clinician at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, in 1793.

[4] The new building was designed by Reginald Uren in the Modern style,[5] built at a cost of £2.5 million[6] and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 May 1968.

[9][10] There were also low-rise blocks to the south west and north east of the tower[9] access to which was from a roundabout on Martineau Lane.