The Exorcists House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
The Exorcists House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chapel-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Exorcists House, 7, Chapel Lane, King's Lynn, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE30 1QJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 618 204
- Coordinates
- 52.75721, 0.39707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Exorcists House is a Grade II listed house located at No. 7 Chapel Lane in King's Lynn, dated 1635. The building is constructed of brick with some flint and has a whitewashed east front. It features a plaintile roof and stands two storeys tall. On the left side, there is a 20th-century door, while to the right, a three-light horizontally sliding sash window is present, accompanied by a fixed part that also consists of three lights. The first floor has a three-light casement window. The gabled roof adds to the structure's character.
The south side of the house is obscured by ivy but appears to have a three-light casement window on each floor, with a straight gable. The north side showcases a prominent Dutch gable, which features a platband at the first floor level and a blind oval window in the gable head. The gable is supported by deep kneelers and has a lower sweep that culminates in an open pediment, displaying the date 1635 in iron letters. A rebuilt brick stack rises from the apex of the pediment. To the west, there is a lower gabled range accessed through a door beneath a lean-to pantiled outshut, with a three-light mullioned casement window on the first floor.
The style and declared date of the Dutch gable are significant, representing an early example of this architectural type.
Local climate
The Exorcists House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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