The Old Office Including Australian House is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1985. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
The Old Office Including Australian House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-doorway-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1985
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- The Old Office Including Australian House, High Street, Fincham, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE33 9EJ
- OS grid reference
- TF 687 063
- Coordinates
- 52.62909, 0.49223
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Office, including Australian House, is a range of two houses and a shop located on the south side of High Street. This building dates from the mid-18th century and is constructed of whitewashed brick and carstone, topped with pantiled roofs.
The house to the east of Australian House features two storeys and three bays. It has a central 20th-century door beneath a pedimented hood, with one 20th-century window on each side. The first floor has three 18th-century casement windows. The gable heads are adorned with a low parapet on kneelers, and the gabled roof has internal end stacks.
Australian House also consists of two storeys and three bays. It has a central door located behind a 20th-century lattice porch. There is one segmental-headed 18th-century casement window on either side of the door, with three additional casements on the first floor, all under flat heads. The gabled roof of Australian House is continuous with the shop to its right.
The shop, located to the west of Australian House, is two storeys high and consists of one bay. It features a full-width double-fronted shop facade with a panelled door and a five-vaned fanlight above. There is one 18th-century casement window on the upper floor. The gabled roof is hipped at the west end, returning into Swan Lane.
Local climate
The Old Office Including Australian House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% 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 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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