Abbey Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.
Abbey Farm House
- WRENN ID
- broken-flint-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Abbey Farm House, Church Green, West Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE32 1WB
- OS grid reference
- TF 781 151
- Coordinates
- 52.70461, 0.63484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with additions and details from around 1900. It may incorporate earlier elements from the monastic remains of the Priory of St. Mary and All Saints. The building is constructed of red brick and features slate roofs. It has two storeys and consists of three or more sections.
The eastern garden front has a two-window range with one ground floor and two first floor sash windows that have glazing bars, along with one ground floor French door. The returned gable wing, which is off-center, includes one ground floor and two first floor sash windows with glazing bars, plus one part glazed door. The center section features a c.1900 ground floor canted bow addition with three plate glass sashes, a first floor tripartite window, and one single sash window with glazing bars, along with one part glazed door.
The c.1900 addition at the west end has one ground floor and one first floor sash window with glazing bars. There is a hipped gabled advance bay that includes a ground floor c.1900 canted bow addition with three plate glass sashes and a first floor Venetian window with sashes and glazing bars under rubbed arches. The building also features a c.1900 wooden modillion eaves cornice and has one gable stack at the east, one at the south, one at the west end, and one ridge stack, all with diamond pattern shafts from around 1900. The rear of the east range has an outshut roof, and there is a second pile at the rear center that includes reused masonry in the west gable.
Local climate
Abbey Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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