Nunnery Place Ruin Approximately 10 Metres South East of the Nunnery is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1951. A Medieval Ruin.
Nunnery Place Ruin Approximately 10 Metres South East of the Nunnery
- WRENN ID
- tattered-corbel-wagtail
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1951
- Type
- Ruin
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- TL 873 822
- Coordinates
- 52.40595, 0.75224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nunnery Place is a ruin located approximately 10 metres south-east of The Nunnery in Thetford. This site is the remains of St George's Nunnery, which was part of a Benedictine convent, possibly serving as a hospital, founded around 1160. The remaining structures are late medieval, with alterations made in the 17th century. The building is constructed from clunch, limestone, and flint, featuring ashlar and some brick dressings, with a significant amount of re-used ashlar. The structure has no roof and is laid out in a rectangular plan with a narrower extension to the north. Originally two storeys tall, it is now one storey. The west side has stepped buttresses, while the north extension features two blocked four-light stone mullioned windows and a late medieval doorway with a four-centred arch and hoodmould. The east facade contains several blocked openings, including two doorways and a chamfered plinth.
Local climate
Nunnery Place Ruin Approximately 10 Metres South East of the Nunnery 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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