The Old Foundry is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1987. House.

The Old Foundry

WRENN ID
ghost-landing-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
Constituency
North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1987
Type
House
Address
The Old Foundry, Newton Road, Castle Acre, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
OS grid reference
TF 821 154
Coordinates
52.70588, 0.69452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Foundry is a house dating from around 1600, featuring gables and an 18th-century facade with 20th-century replacement details. The exterior has a plaster-rendered facade with red pantiled roofs. The east gable is made of flint with brick dressings, while the rear is brick, and the west gable also has flint with brick dressings and stone quoins, with a flint rear. The building consists of two or more sections and is two storeys high with an attic in the eastern section, containing four windows.

On the east side, there are three ground floor 20th-century replacement sash windows with glazing bars, a 20th-century window insertion in the centre, and a 20th-century bow window on the west side. The entrance features a 20th-century replacement door. The first floor has two 18th-century sash windows with glazing bars on the east and two 20th-century insertions on the west. The roof is recessed behind a parapet, and there is a segmental gabled leaded two-light casement dormer on the east side. The west gable includes an attic kneeler, a brick coped parapet, and a stack from an earlier taller roof pitch. The eastern section has one gable and one axial stack.

Inside, the west gable ground floor fireplace bressumer is dated 1636, while the east gable fireplace bressumer features roll mouldings.

Local climate

The Old Foundry sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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