Assembly Rooms Immediately Behind Guildhall is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 June 1972. Assembly rooms.
Assembly Rooms Immediately Behind Guildhall
- WRENN ID
- dusted-pavement-crag
- 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
- Assembly rooms
- Address
- Assembly Rooms Immediately Behind Guildhall, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 5DQ
- OS grid reference
- TF 617 198
- Coordinates
- 52.75236, 0.39485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Assembly Rooms are located immediately behind the Guildhall in King's Lynn. They were built between 1766 and 1768 by architects William Tuck and Thomas King. The building is constructed of gault brick and consists of two storeys with five bays, featuring sash windows with glazing bars, including a round-headed window in the center.
Inside, the Assembly Rooms open off the Stone Hall in the Guildhall. There is one large rectangular room heated by two fireplaces located in the east wall. The ceiling boasts a modillion cornice and open fretwork roses. Additionally, there is a smaller card room that opens to the east, which has one fireplace in the east wall and similar decorative details.
Local climate
Assembly Rooms Immediately Behind Guildhall 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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