Detached Gable Wall, Friary Ruins is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1953. A Medieval Ruins.
Detached Gable Wall, Friary Ruins
- WRENN ID
- tattered-pavement-hazel
- Grade
- II*
- 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
- Ruins
- Address
- Detached Gable Wall, Friary Ruins, Friar's Lane, Burnham Norton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 838 427
- Coordinates
- 52.9509, 0.73482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The detached gable wall of the Friary Ruins in Burnham Norton dates back to the 14th century. It is constructed from decorated flint with cut-stone dressings. The wall features a central doorway that has two continuous hollow chamfers, an outer label, and a string course that extends across the facade. The arch of the doorway has been filled in with brick. There are two cusped niches located to the north and south of the doorway, and the outline of a large west window embrasure is visible. A buttress is set off at the northeast corner. The wall has been built up to form the gable of a later demolished building made from clunch and brick. Its proximity to the gatehouse suggests it is not the west gable of a church.
Local climate
Detached Gable Wall, Friary Ruins receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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