38 and 40, Bridge Street is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1972. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
38 and 40, Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-jamb-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 38 and 40, Bridge Street, Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE38 9DH
- OS grid reference
- TF 609 032
- Coordinates
- 52.60296, 0.37462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th or early 19th century building on Bridge Street, constructed of carstone with pale brick dressings, including quoins, a floor band, and window cases. It is two storeys high. The roof has been altered and is now covered in machine tiles. A plinth runs along the base. The first floor has three flush frame windows, altered, some with centre glazing bars only, and two blank windows that are now painted panels. The ground floor features a central flush frame sash window with a segmental head, and shops flank each side, incorporating wooden cases, pilasters, end entrances, and fanlights. Numbers 38 to 44 (even) form a group.
Local climate
38 and 40, Bridge Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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