The Blue House, The House on the Green and Coachman's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. Row of cottages. 8 related planning applications.
The Blue House, The House on the Green and Coachman's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-truss-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1953
- Type
- Row of cottages
- Address
- The Blue House, The House on the Green and Coachman's Cottage, 78, 79 and 80, Market Place, Burnham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE31 8HD
- OS grid reference
- TF 831 421
- Coordinates
- 52.94514, 0.72463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blue House, The House on the Green, and Coachman's Cottage are a row of three cottages dating from the 18th century. They are constructed with colourwashed plaster render over brick, and have red pantiled roofs. The cottages are two storeys high.
No. 78, the easternmost cottage, has three bays and a lobby entrance plan. It features two ground floor sash windows with glazing bars, and two 19th-century first-floor casements with three lights, the central light being hinged. A wooden door is set within an architrave, and a central axial stack is present.
No. 79, to the west, has two ground floor and two first floor sash windows with glazing bars. A central door is framed by a moulded architrave, and has a raised and fielded four-panel door.
No. 80, the westernmost cottage, incorporates a late 19th-century three-window canted bay window on the ground floor, with a door attached to its west side. The windows have margin light glazing bar divisions filled with coloured glass. A stack is located on the party wall shared with No. 79.
Local climate
The Blue House, The House on the Green and Coachman's Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2001
- 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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