Detached Porch, in Courtyard is a Grade I listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. A Jacobean Porch.
Detached Porch, in Courtyard
- WRENN ID
- still-dormer-wren
- Grade
- I
- 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
- Porch
- Period
- Jacobean
- Address
- Detached Porch, in Courtyard, Old Hunstanton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 691 418
- Coordinates
- 52.94714, 0.5165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The detached porch in the courtyard of Hunstanton Hall is a former entrance to the 16th-century range of the hall, dated 1618. It became free-standing after a fire in 1855. Built for Sir Hamon Le Strange, 3rd Baronet, the porch features stone, chequerwork stone, and flint in the attic, with brick internally. The returns are made of coursed carstone with galleting, clunch, and brick rubble. It is designed in a Jacobean Mannerist classical style, supported by two Tuscan Doric columns on bases. The central arch includes a keystone, and the entablature and frieze project forward over the cornice, adorned with two strap work obelisks featuring masks. The attic displays a diamond pattern of chequerwork flint and stone, with a central stone coat of arms and the motto 'Mihi Parta Tuere'. The parapet cornice is raised in the center, featuring a shell hood and the date 1618, along with a stone finial with a roundel above and at both ends.
Local climate
Detached Porch, in Courtyard receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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