The Old Tea Shop is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1987. Cottage.
The Old Tea Shop
- WRENN ID
- other-finial-pine
- Grade
- II
- 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
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Tea Shop, Stocks Green, Castle Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 816 151
- Coordinates
- 52.70366, 0.68768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Tea Shop is a row of cottages that includes a shop and one cottage, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond red brick and has a red pantile roof. The building is two storeys high and features five windows. On the ground floor, there are three windows under cambered arches, with two outer sashes that have glazing bars and a central replacement 20th-century plate glass window. Additionally, there is a 20th-century bowed shop window and two boarded doors with glazed upper lights. The first floor has two outer sashes with glazing bars, two inner windows that are blocked and plastered, and one central 20th-century plate glass window inserted into the original opening. The building has an attic dentil eaves cornice and features one ridge and one external gable stack at the north end, both with set offs.
Local climate
The Old Tea Shop 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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