Ruby and Fairview Cottages and Ardmore House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Ruby and Fairview Cottages and Ardmore House
- WRENN ID
- deep-pilaster-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ruby and Fairview Cottages and Ardmore House, Ruby Cottage, A134, Crimplesham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE33 9DX
- OS grid reference
- TF 652 037
- Coordinates
- 52.60654, 0.43891
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This house, divided into three properties, likely started around 1600 and was probably re-faced in the 18th century, with alterations and extensions added in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The external appearance is brick in English bond, with flint returns and red brick dressings. The roof is tiled with pantiles. Originally a three-cell lobby-entry plan, the main entrance has now been blocked. The house is two storeys high, with a first-floor band. A boarded door is on the left side of the original left-hand cell. There are three three-light timber casement windows on the ground floor, each beneath a segmental arch. Above these are three similar three-light windows on the first floor. A blocked opening is located in front of a chimney stack. An axial brick chimney stack is located internally, along with gable and ridge stacks; the stack on the right-hand side was removed at ground floor level when an early 20th-century canted bay window was added. The left-hand gable features an 18th-century apex, while the right-hand gable shows layers of tumbling from the 17th and later centuries.
Inside Ardmore House (the right-hand section), the axial beam is chamfered with bar stops, alongside flat joists. The central cell has a plain chamfered beam and flat joists. The left-hand cell had its floor replaced in the 20th century following a fire. An original chimney stack is partially blocked on the right side. A staircase is located behind the stack. The roof has been replaced with butt purlins.
Local climate
Ruby and Fairview Cottages and Ardmore House 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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