The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1949. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Priory
- WRENN ID
- winding-grate-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Priory, 4 and 6, London Road, Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE38 9BZ
- OS grid reference
- TF 611 030
- Coordinates
- 52.60169, 0.37798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory, located on London Road, is a building dating from the 17th century and later. It features a brick and carstone construction with a tiled roof, and it stands two stories tall with attics. The building has an irregular plan and includes sash and casement windows, along with some blocked brick mullion windows. The west side showcases stepped gables, and there are brick chimneys with octagonal shafts and moulded bases.
The front gabled wing displays rustications at both the ground and first floors. The front wall is made of carstone with a brick coping and a plinth that is 4 feet high. The lower wing at the southeast contains a modern shop at the corner, while No 6, also two stories with an attic, has a mostly blank facade facing the road. It features an old tiled roof, a knit gable, and a first-floor band. There is a flush frame casement window at the first floor with glazing bars, along with two flush frame casements at the ground floor, also with glazing bars, made of carstone with red brick dressings.
Nos 4 and 6 are part of a group that includes Nos 5 and 7.
Local climate
The Priory 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 — 7 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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