The Hawkmoth Building

The Hawkmoth Building is more than a workspace, it’s a pollinator, a facilitator of growth, enabling reproduction, and creating networks of interdependence.

Flexible by design across four floors, it offers 63,000 sq ft of lab and office accommodation to meet your needs now and in the future. The Hawkmoth building is located within Norwich Research Park, one of Europe’s largest science clusters. The park supports 30,000 people on-site, including 3,000 early-career researchers and 100 different microbiology research groups.

Purpose-built for businesses ready to scale

Space that grows with you

Designed to accommodate a range of uses, the main wings (labs 1 and 2) can service high-specification laboratory uses. The central areas (lab 3) are designed as office or low specification lab areas.

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Built for performance

Flexible, high-quality facilities allow businesses to establish themselves within a world-leading research campus, benefiting from proximity to major institutes, shared infrastructure and a collaborative innovation community.
Made to scale

Floors: 18,800 sq ft (GIA)

Wings: 3,253 sq ft – 6,590 sq ft (GIA)

BREEAM Excellent

Fully fitted reception and core area

Ability to install fume cupboards to laboratory space

External loading, waste and lab gas storage area
63,000 sq ft to let

Floor grid of 6.6m by 9.6m (63 sq m)

On-site accessible parking and allocated parking

EV charging points, cycle storage and shower facilities

Access to campus amenities including specialist technology platforms
Purpose-built for businesses ready to scale

The building has been designed with flexibility for growing businesses. Entire floors are available to let or can be spilt to provide three self contained tenancies around a central core.

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Evolved for growth

Our name reflects our purpose. Hawkmoths are specialist pollinators - agile, precise and facilitators of growth. This is space for businesses with similar qualities: companies that have developed their specialisation, proven their concept, and are ready to scale with agility and endurance.

A convenient location for business

Norwich Research Park offers a compelling location for new businesses, start-ups and international companies due to its strategic transport links supporting easy commuting, client visits and supply-chain accessibility.
Just minutes from the A47 and A11, 15 minutes from Norwich city center, 1 hour from Cambridge, and 2 hours from London.

Buses to Norwich city center and railway station, with London trains available in under 2 hours. Nearby Park & Ride available.

Close to Norwich International Airport (30 mins), London Stansted (90 mins), and East Midlands Airport (2 hrs).

A 230-hectare network of signed cycle routes, including six “Active Campus” trails, Beryl bike docks, and links to the city, Broads, and surrounding areas.
A city of culture, commerce, and innovation

Norwich blends medieval heritage with a vibrant modern culture. Recognised by UNESCO as a City of Literature, it is known as the “City of Stories” and offers a thriving cultural scene, strong commercial centre and recently voted the UK's premier place to live, according to the 2026 Sunday Times guide.
Outstanding Beauty

The city is also one of the UK’s greenest, with riverside walks, parks and cycle routes connecting the city to the surrounding countryside. Nearby natural assets such as the Norfolk Broads and the Norfolk coastline, combined with more affordable housing than cities like Cambridge, make Norwich an attractive place to live and work.

Made to scale

Norwich Research Park is one of the largest single site concentration of research in agri-food, health, nutrition and the environment.

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You're in good company

The only research campus in the UK with three BBSRC research institutes (Earlham Institute, John Innes Centre and Quadram Institute) along with The Sainsbury Laboratory, The University of East Anglia and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

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Access to specialist research facilities and talent pool
Businesses joining the park get access to the specialist skills pool and opportunities to collaborate with global businesses.

Established business location
100,000 sq ft built and let to 50 companies from start-ups to high-growth businesses.

A community of mutual regard
Strengthened through a programme of networking events and social activities for companies.

High quality of life
Cathedral city, open countryside, The Broads, extensive coastline and range of housing all in close proximity.

Range of accommodation
To meet a company’s needs now and in the future with up to 1.6m sq ft of planning consent.

A suite of campus amenities
High-quality nursery, restaurant, café, meeting rooms and access to the UEA’s Sports Park.

Industry engagement and enterprise activity
Creating new opportunities through an explorer fund, a pipeline of pre seed and seed stage companies, and an Entrepreneur Network Manager supporting start-up businesses.

Great connectivity
Less than 5 minutes from the A47, 20 minutes from Norwich International Airport, direct trains to London, good public bus service and cycle paths link to the city centre.
Together we are taking science to the next level

Join a community of 30,000 including 3,000 early-career researchers, at the forefront of engineering-biology research in the world.

Norwich Research Park

Jonathan Barnard
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Savills

Jonathan Gardiner
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Carter Jonas

Will Cummock
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+44 7789 113 846
Funded and developed by Vengrove

Vengrove is an investment and advisory firm who are deeply operational and have a sector-specific investment approach through direct equity and owner-operator platform creation.

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The Hawkmoth Building is more than a workspace, it’s a pollinator, a facilitator of growth, enabling reproduction, and creating networks of interdependence.

Made to scale

63,000 sq ft to let

Together we are taking science to the next level