Western House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1996. House. 1 related planning application.
Western House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pedestal-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Western House, St James's Green, Castle Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE32 2BD
- OS grid reference
- TF 817 155
- Coordinates
- 52.70688, 0.6882
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western House is a house that dates from the late 17th century and was remodelled and extended in the 19th century. It features a front made of gault brick, with red brick and flint on the sides, topped with a 20th-century tile roof and brick ridge stacks. The house has two storeys and a two-window range of 8/8 unhorned sashes, with wood lintels above the first floor windows and gauged brick lintels over the ground floor windows. There is a plinth, a storey band, and dentilled eaves. The entrance is located in a lean-to extension at the right end of the building.
Inside, the ground floor includes bridging beams with ogee and notch stops on the chamfers. It has heavy joists laid flat with wide boards above. The first floor features a fireplace with a brick basket arch, and to the left, there is a decorative panel with foliage, birds, and sunbursts in various colours. The attic contains a similar small fireplace, which is now blocked, and a four-bay roof with two tiers of butt purlins and upper collars, although some lower collars have been removed.
Local climate
Western House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- 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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