Parish Rooms, Engine House and Barn to Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 May 1983. Barn, engine house.

Parish Rooms, Engine House and Barn to Old Rectory

WRENN ID
tired-spandrel-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Broadland
Constituency
Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 May 1983
Type
Barn, engine house
Address
Parish Rooms, Engine House and Barn to Old Rectory, Hindolveston Road, Foulsham, NR20 5SF
OS grid reference
TG 032 250
Coordinates
52.78507, 1.01233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Rooms, Engine House, and Barn to the Old Rectory is a former rectory barn constructed of red brick and pantiles in 1731, later extended to serve as a fire engine house in 1853. The gable wall features a plinth and 20th-century casement windows set in original openings, along with honeycomb brick ventilators, all beneath segmental brick arches. A datestone inscribed "T.A. 1731" is present, along with an owl hole above it. The parapet gable has tumbling-in and tie iron ends with the initials T.A. The elevation facing the churchyard has five blocked openings with segmental brick arches and some scattered 20th-century windows. The north elevation retains the original barn doors. The building has a large span double roof made of hardwood, supported by two sets of staggered butt purlins. The Engine House, located to the north, includes a datestone above a cambered brick arch and was built to accommodate the fire engine that was previously kept in the church.

Local climate

Parish Rooms, Engine House and Barn to Old Rectory receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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