The Parsonage House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1985. Former rectory house. 8 related planning applications.
The Parsonage House
- WRENN ID
- strange-truss-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1985
- Type
- Former rectory house
- Address
- The Parsonage House, Creake Road, Burnham Thorpe, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 8HW
- OS grid reference
- TF 855 406
- Coordinates
- 52.93107, 0.7589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parsonage House is a former rectory built in 1802. It features a rendered south front with clunch and brick returns, topped by a slate roof. The building has a two-storey, five-bay south front and two storeys with attic returns on the north side, showcasing a Neo-classical style.
The south front includes two two-bay outer bows that are segmental in plan, each with two ground floor and two first floor curved sash windows with glazing bars and architrave surrounds. There is a central sash window on the first floor. The central porch is supported by four piers with bases and capitals, featuring a segmental arch that supports a cornice and parapet, and has a part glazed raised and fielded door. The facade is adorned with a first floor platband, an attic cornice, and a parapet that follows the line of the segmental bows.
On the south side, there is a single-storey blank bay with an end pilaster strip and cornice, while the east return has a tripartite sash window with glazing bars. The roof is hipped and has two rendered stacks. This building replaces the rectory house where Admiral Lord Nelson was born, which was located on a different site.
Local climate
The Parsonage House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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