Nelson House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1972. House. 3 related planning applications.
Nelson House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-arch-hyssop
- 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
- House
- Address
- Nelson House, 17, Bridge Street, Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE38 9DS
- OS grid reference
- TF 609 032
- Coordinates
- 52.60275, 0.37568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nelson House is an 18th-century building located on the south side of Bridge Street. It is two stories tall with an attic and constructed from carstone and brick. The front is painted brick, featuring a battlemented parapet. The roof is tiled with a tumbled gable on the east side. There are two sash dormers with glazing bars and four sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. The ground floor has 19th-century projecting shops with a wooden cornice. Nelson House, along with No 15, forms a group.
Local climate
Nelson House 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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