Greyfriars is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Former rectory house.
Greyfriars
- WRENN ID
- vacant-footing-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Former rectory house
- Address
- Greyfriars, Church Lane, Sedgeford, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
- OS grid reference
- TF 706 364
- Coordinates
- 52.89877, 0.53549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greyfriars is a former rectory house built around 1840. It features carstone with stuccoed brick dressings and has slated roofs. The building is designed in a Tudor-Gothic style and has an "L" plan with a second section filling the angle. It is two storeys high with attics.
The entrance front includes a cement stucco rendered gabled porch with hood moulds above the door, a quatrefoil with a coat of arms above it, kneelers, a parapet, and a finial. On the north side, there is one blocked ground floor window and a three-light casement window on the first floor. The south side has a single gabled bay with a three-light casement on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor, along with an attic ventilation slit. The openings feature stuccoed rustication and stucco hood-moulds, with a brick coped parapet gable and a brick stack.
The garden front faces south and has two end gables. The east gable includes a three-sided ground floor stone dressed bay window and a two-light casement on the first floor. The west gable has a three-light window on the ground floor, a two-light window on the first floor, and two gable two-light casements. Both gables have coped parapets with finials. In the center, there are a three-light casement on the ground floor and a two-light casement on the first floor. The center and east gables have stucco dressings, while the west gable is finished in brick. There are two brick stacks on the building.
Local climate
Greyfriars 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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