Remains of Gatehouse of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St Mary and St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1987. A Medieval Gatehouse.
Remains of Gatehouse of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St Mary and St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- broken-joist-sable
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1987
- Type
- Gatehouse
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Remains of Gatehouse of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St Mary and St Peter and St Paul, Priory Road, Castle Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 813 149
- Coordinates
- 52.70178, 0.68276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of the gatehouse of the Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St. Mary and St. Peter and St. Paul, founded in 1090 and dissolved in 1537, date from around 1500. The structure is built from knapped, squared flint, clunch blocks, and brick dressings, and it is currently roofless with two storeys in the Perpendicular style.
The north face features an off-centre, four-centred arch carriage entrance with brick rustication, jambs, a soffit, and a drip mould, along with a keyed brick arch above. There is also a two-centred arched pedestrian gate with similar brick detailing and the royal arms of England above it. The facade includes two outer rectangular windows with brick-dressed drip mould heads and angle buttresses with set-offs. A first-floor string course displays four panels with coats of arms, while only the sills and jambs remain of the two first-floor windows.
On the west face, there is one ground floor and one first floor brick-dressed rectangular window. The south face has two arches, one at ground level and two first-floor windows, along with angle buttresses. A brick spiral staircase is located in the south-west corner, along with the remains of flues. This site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is under the care of Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission.
Local climate
Remains of Gatehouse of Cluniac Benedictine Priory of St Mary and St Peter and St Paul 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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