53 and 55, Old Hunstanton Road is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1972. House, cottage. 1 related planning application.
53 and 55, Old Hunstanton Road
- WRENN ID
- carved-screen-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1972
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- 53 and 55, Old Hunstanton Road, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE36 6HU
- OS grid reference
- TF 684 422
- Coordinates
- 52.9511, 0.50527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 53 and 55 on Old Hunstanton Road is a house that has been converted into a pair of cottages, dating back to the 17th century. The building is constructed of flint with brick dressings and features a 20th-century red pantiled roof. It stands two storeys tall and has five openings on the ground floor and three on the first floor.
No. 53, located to the west, has two ground floor casement windows with three lights each, a central 20th-century door, and two first floor casement windows, also with three lights. No. 55, to the east, features a ground floor casement window, a door from around 1900, and a single casement window on the first floor.
The building displays brick quoins, a dogtooth eaves cornice, and a brick-coped east gable. The west gable is made of knapped and galleted flint with carstone chequerwork. There is a brick string course on the first floor and two blocked window openings that are brick dressed, dating from the 17th century. The structure has a brick-coped parapet with tumbling in, along with one axial stack and one stack at the west end.
Local climate
53 and 55, Old Hunstanton Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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