Old Foundry House and Attached Gate Pier is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1987. House. 6 related planning applications.

Old Foundry House and Attached Gate Pier

WRENN ID
lost-wattle-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Constituency
North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1987
Type
House
Address
Old Foundry House and Attached Gate Pier, the Street, Thornage, NR25 7QF
OS grid reference
TG 050 363
Coordinates
52.88566, 1.04663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Foundry House is an 18th-century building with an attached 19th-century gate pier. The house is rendered and colourwashed, featuring a dentil cornice and a pantile roof. It has two ranges with a rear wing addition and consists of three bays over two storeys. The windows are flush sash with glazing bars, and there is a four-panelled recessed door located between the second and third bays, which has panelled reveals beneath a shallow flat canopy. The left gable is rendered, while the right gable is made of uncoursed flint with erratic brick headers. The rear range is constructed of pebble flint with brick dressings and has a hipped pantile roof. A sash window on the first floor is set under a scored cast iron wedge lintel. There is also a 20th-century single-storey wing at the rear. The attached gate pier to the right of the house is a 19th-century structure made of rusticated gault brick, topped with a cast iron double cap. It features three front panels with cast iron plaques displaying decorative figures, and a cast iron cap on the plinth. Historically, there was an iron and brass foundry on this site in the 19th century.

Local climate

Old Foundry House and Attached Gate Pier receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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