St Nicholas House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. House. 8 related planning applications.
St Nicholas House
- WRENN ID
- north-moulding-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Nicholas House, 8, Minstergate, Thetford, IP24 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 868 832
- Coordinates
- 52.41503, 0.74564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Nicholas House is a house dating from the mid-18th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and brick quoins, with a red brick main facade. The roof is covered in pantiles. The plan includes a main block of three irregular bays and a two-bay, south-facing extension with parallel, mansard-roofed ranges.
The main block is two storeys high. A projecting gabled porch, positioned to the left of centre, features a round-arched entrance and fluted pilasters. Two 8/8 unhorned sashes are to the right of the porch. A platband runs along the first floor, which is lit by three 6/6 sashes. The gabled roof has two gabled dormers containing 3/6 unhorned sashes. A central ridge stack is present. A long, sloping, full-width outshut extends to the rear, with dormers on two levels.
A single-bay extension to the south-west is accessed via a 20th-century gabled timber porch and contains an 8/8 sash window on the first floor. It has a mansard roof, the lower slope being tile-hung and with an 8/8 sash. An internal gable-end stack is located to the south-west. An additional two-storey extension is situated immediately to the north-west, built with flint and re-used ashlar. A gable-end faces the street. The ground floor has a three-light double-transomed casement, and the attic floor contains two sashes within the mansard roof. The interior was not inspected.
Local climate
St Nicholas House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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