Old Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Old Farm Cottages

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Old Farm Cottages, 43 and 45, Main Road, Holme Next the Sea, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 707 430
Coordinates
52.95796, 0.53988
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These cottages, now two separate dwellings, date back to at least the late 16th or early 17th century, although a datestone reading 1535 appears to be a later addition. The construction is a mix of rubble and knapped flint, with brick dressings and a red pantiled roof. The cottages appear to have been built in two phases. The western section has two casement windows on both the ground and first floors, while the eastern section has a single casement window on each floor. All windows are 19th century, with two vertical glazing bars. A 20th-century door is present on the western side. The cottages feature brick dressings, quoins marking the junction between the two builds (the eastern one being slightly forward), and brick stitching on the western build. There are two partly blocked brick windows on the ground floor, and two low, long windows at eaves level in the centre and eastern sections. A sundial, bearing the date 1535, is affixed to the first floor of the western cottage. The gables have brick coped parapets, the roof is steeply pitched, and there are stacks at the west end and the former west end of the eastern build.

Local climate

Old Farm Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
  • 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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