St Margaret's Vicarage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
St Margaret's Vicarage
- WRENN ID
- steep-steeple-thunder
- 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
- House
- Address
- St Margaret's Vicarage, St Margaret's Place, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 5DL
- OS grid reference
- TF 617 197
- Coordinates
- 52.75159, 0.39458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Margaret's Vicarage is a house that is said to date from around 1830, although it appears to be from about 1810. It became a vicarage in 1912. The building is constructed of brown brick and has a slate roof, standing three storeys tall. The street front has three bays and does not feature a doorway, with the central bays being blind on each floor. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, set under gauged skewback arches.
The main entrance front faces south and has a wide three-bay design. It is accessed through a central panelled door that is framed by a simple timber case with deep panelled reveals that include reeding. To the left of the door is a mid-19th century single-storey bay. The windows on this front are also sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, with the window above the door being taller to illuminate the staircase hall inside. At the west end of this front, there is a full-height screen wall with a swept top and a blocked window at the first-floor level, which was part of a two-storey structure that has since been demolished, as indicated on the 1965 edition of the Ordnance Survey map.
The main block has a hipped roof with a timber eaves cornice and two brick stacks. Extending west from the center of the house is an early 16th-century brick wall featuring a four-centred arch towards the west end, leading to a rectangular compound that was formerly part of the ground floor of a 16th-century building.
Inside, the staircase features two stick balusters on each tread and a wreathed handrail, with an open string design. There are panelled internal doors and sections of unremarkable plaster cornices. The house was built on the site of a 17th-century house where the Burney family lived from 1753 to 1760.
Local climate
St Margaret's Vicarage 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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