16 and 20, Magdalen Street is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1971. A C18 Pair of houses.
16 and 20, Magdalen Street
- WRENN ID
- weathered-wicket-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1971
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 16 and 20, Magdalen Street, Thetford
- OS grid reference
- TL 872 831
- Coordinates
- 52.41396, 0.75191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 and 20 Magdalen Street are a pair of houses, built in the mid-18th century. They are constructed from whitewashed flint with gault brick dressings and feature a pantile roof. The buildings are two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are two late 20th-century doors set under segmental arches. To the left of the door at No. 20, there are two late 20th-century 6/6 sash windows, while No. 16 has a 20th-century tripartite sash window to the right of its door, in a space that was previously a shop front. Between the doors, there is a sash window without glazing bars. The first floor has three 2-light casement windows, all under segmental heads. The gabled roof has high side parapets that suggest it may have originally been thatched. There are internal gable-end stacks and a central ridge stack. The south-west gable head features some great brick. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
16 and 20, Magdalen 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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