The Bank is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Counting house.
The Bank
- WRENN ID
- silver-rood-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Counting house
- Address
- The Bank, King's Staithe Square, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 615 199
- Coordinates
- 52.75315, 0.393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bank is a counting house built in 1782 for The Lynn Bank, founded by Richard Bartlett, Joseph Gurney, Joseph Taylor, and John Birkbeck. It is constructed of brick and has a roof that is not visible. The building is one storey high. The entrance is located in the east gable and features a pediment with double-leaf panelled doors beneath a seven-vaned fanlight set within a segmental arch. The doorcase is flanked by etiolated Ionic pilasters. To the left of the entrance is a plain recessed bay that contains one sash window with glazing bars. The north elevation has a short blind wall on both the right and left sides, with the west side now pierced by a late 19th-century sash window. The elevation also includes three rendered bays divided by Ionic pilasters, which separate three round-headed sash windows with glazing bars. A dentil cornice runs along the top of the building.
Local climate
The Bank sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
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