Porter's Lodge at King Edward VII High School is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1972. Porters' lodge.

Porter's Lodge at King Edward VII High School

WRENN ID
lone-pinnacle-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 June 1972
Type
Porters' lodge
Address
Porter's Lodge at King Edward VII High School, Gaywood Road, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 629 204
Coordinates
52.75723, 0.41298
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Porter's Lodge at King Edward VII High School was built in 1906 by Basil Champneys. It is constructed of brick and has a plain tiled roof. The building features a reduced Queen Anne vernacular style, based on Champneys' preferred domestic box-plan, which he also used for his Hall Oak in Hampstead from 1881. The lodge is square in shape, with one storey and a dormer attic. The north side has a three-bay rounded arcade facing the street, with a central door flanked by a casement window on each side. There are additional casement windows on the returns and rear of the building. Above the string course, the elevation is tile-hung. The hipped roof has a cluster stack at the apex with four flues, and there is one large dormer under a segmental roof on each slope of the roof.

Local climate

Porter's Lodge at King Edward VII High School 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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  4. King Edward VII High School Grade II* 63 m
  5. Statue of King Edward VII at King Edward VII High School Grade II 79 m
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