Nunnery Gateway is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Gateway.
Nunnery Gateway
- WRENN ID
- gilded-doorway-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Gateway
- Address
- Nunnery Gateway, Nunnery Drive, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 822
- Coordinates
- 52.40642, 0.75039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nunnery Gateway is a gateway to the precinct of the Benedictine nunnery of St George, dating from around 1600. It is constructed of red brick. The western face features a rounded archway set within square spandrels that are formed from hollow-moulded field. There are plain responds on either side of the arch, with tapering pilasters on the right and left that rise to support a plain frieze. The eastern face has a plain field that also contains a round arch, and there is a moulded stone string course at the level of the responds.
Local climate
Nunnery Gateway sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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