Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. Factory. 5 related planning applications.
Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons
- WRENN ID
- endless-pavement-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons, Minstergate, Thetford, IP24 1BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 868 832
- Coordinates
- 52.41515, 0.74533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former factory of Charles Burrell and Sons is an early 19th-century building located on Minstergate in Thetford. It is constructed of flint with red brick dressings and features a red brick facade, topped with a pantiled roof. The factory consists of two storeys and is arranged in six bays, with an extension to the southeast that includes two additional two-storey bays and two one-storey bays, all under a gabled pantiled roof.
There are six windows on each floor, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads and arranged in two groups of three. Currently, all windows are boarded up. The extension has one bay with similar windows, and the southeast bay includes a pedestrian door at ground level, although this bay is without a roof. There is also a single-bay extension to the southeast featuring two segmental windows and a doorway. The main block has a gabled roof, and there is a flint and brick return on the northwest side. At the rear, there is a factory cross wing that also has a gabled pantile roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Factory of Charles Burrell and Sons 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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