A historic former city library will go up for sale but hundreds of thousands of pounds in urgent repairs are needed.
The Grade II listed site - which most recently housed a restaurant called The Library - is owned by Norwich City Council, which wants to sell or lease it, along with neighbouring offices.
The building, on Guildhall Hill, held a library from 1784 until it closed in 1976.
Despite interest from various parties in the past, so far no one has come forward to take on the building.
Jane Austen College, part of the Inspiration Trust, had initially expressed an interest in taking over the building and the neighbouring office.
But due to the poor state of the old library building, the trust has said it only wants the old office site, which housed the Norfolk and Waveney Enterprise Services (NWES) until 2018.
At a meeting on Wednesday, the authority's cabinet agreed to proceed with selling off the old library building, while looking to lease the office to the school.
A survey carried out on behalf of the council shows the library needs more than £600,000 in repairs, including £289,000 of "immediate high priority and urgent work” before a new tenant could occupy it.
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