51 and 53, Old Market Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Public house, private house.
51 and 53, Old Market Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-basalt-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Public house, private house
- Address
- 51 and 53, Old Market Street, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 874 827
- Coordinates
- 52.41039, 0.75489
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
51 and 53 Old Market Street is a building that dates back to the 16th century, with later alterations. It was formerly known as The Good Woman public house and has been a private house since 1910. The structure features a plastered and colourwashed timber frame on a brick ground floor, with the west gable made of gault brick. The roof is plain tiled and the building has two storeys.
On the ground floor, there are two plank doors and three 3-light horizontally-sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The first floor is jettied and has one 3-light sliding sash window, two 2-light sliding sashes, and a 2-light addition from the 20th century in the centre. The roof is gabled, with an internal gable-end stack to the west and a 16th-century brick ridge stack located to the right of centre.
Attached to the east is a former outbuilding, now used as a garage, which features 20th-century garage doors. This outbuilding is made of whitewashed flint and clunch with brick details, and it has a pedestrian door on the ground floor and a 2-light first-floor casement window. The outbuilding also has a gabled roof and a stepped external stack made of English-bond brick. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
51 and 53, Old Market Street 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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