Northern Gateway to Carmelite Precinct is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Gateway.
Northern Gateway to Carmelite Precinct
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-jade-wax
- 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
- Gateway
- Address
- Northern Gateway to Carmelite Precinct, the Friars, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 618 195
- Coordinates
- 52.7489, 0.39695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Northern Gateway to the Carmelite Precinct, located in King's Lynn, is a 15th-century structure that serves as the entrance to the precinct of the Carmelite Friary. It is built of brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof. The north side of the gateway is two storeys high, although the interior does not reflect this height. It has a stilted stone arch with a double hollow-chamfered design and a hood on labels. The stone quoins add to its robustness, and there is a string course at the first floor level, which supports three ashlar niches. These niches have wave-moulded arches, with the central niche raised higher on a pedestal and topped with a cusped ogee head. The parapet completes the north side's architectural detail. In contrast, the south side is more straightforward, featuring a hollow-chamfered stilted arch beneath a sloping plain tiled roof.
Local climate
Northern Gateway to Carmelite Precinct 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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