47 and 49, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Shop.
47 and 49, King Street
- WRENN ID
- endless-postern-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 47 and 49, King Street, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 869 831
- Coordinates
- 52.4141, 0.74762
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
47 and 49 King Street are two shops that have been combined into one, dating from the early 19th century. The building features a gault brick exterior over a flint core and has a pantile roof. It is two storeys high and has an early 20th-century plate-glass shop front with a central entrance. To the right, there is an early 19th-century bowed sash window, likely used for shop display, with 10/10 glazing bars. On the first floor, there are two unhorned 6/6 sash windows with gauged skewback arches above them. The building has a parapet with a gabled roof that is hipped to the west. There is a ridge stack shared with No. 43, and an external stack to the west that was truncated when the roof was hipped in the 20th century. At the back, there is a two-storey wing that includes a sash window and a door beneath a painted-over five-vaned fanlight, which leads to former domestic quarters. The rear wing also has a hipped pantile roof. The interior has been updated in the 20th century, with a late 20th-century roof featuring one principal with taper-tenoned butt purlins.
Local climate
47 and 49, King Street 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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