The Limes is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

The Limes

WRENN ID
gaunt-kitchen-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1971
Type
House
Address
The Limes, 32, Bridge Street, Thetford
OS grid reference
TL 867 829
Coordinates
52.41276, 0.7441
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Limes is a house, now used as offices, built around 1760 and converted in 1989. It features red brick construction under slate roofs and has an L-shaped plan. The building is two storeys high, with the street facade consisting of three bays. The doorcase is positioned to the left and has panelled reveals and block entablatures, although it is missing a pediment. This door leads to a small late 20th-century lobby with two doors to different premises. To the left, there are two late 18th-century unhorned sash windows with 8/8 glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, which have flush frames. The first floor has three similar sash windows. The building has a paired modillion eaves cornice and a gabled roof, which was heightened around 1900, coinciding with alterations to the adjacent No. 30. There is a stack to the left.

The garden front is also two storeys high and has six bays. The ground floor features six two-light French windows under gauged skewback arches, while the first floor has six early 19th-century recessed sash windows with 6/6 glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. The front is topped with a plain parapet and has a hipped roof with a ridge stack positioned to the right of centre and an external gable-end stack on the north-west return. An extension was added to this gable in 1989.

Inside, there is an open-well cut-string staircase with two turned balusters per tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail, which returns as a balcony at the first floor. The rooms have been partitioned in the 20th century for office use. The roof features King-post trusses dating from around 1900.

Local climate

The Limes 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
  • 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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