40 and 42, Earls' Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Houses. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42, Earls' Street
- WRENN ID
- weathered-railing-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 40 and 42, Earls' Street, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 871 832
- Coordinates
- 52.41545, 0.75008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of houses located at 40 and 42 Earls' Street, built around 1820. They are constructed from flint with gault brick dressings and have a pantile roof. The buildings are two storeys high and feature three bays. There are two central 20th-century doors, which are separated by a door leading to a plank passageway, all of which are set under segmental arches. To the right, there is an 8/8 horned sash window, while to the left is a 6/6 replacement window, both with segmental heads. The first floor has three 6/6 segmental sash windows. The houses also have a dentil eaves cornice and a gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks on both the right and left sides. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
40 and 42, Earls' 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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