Whalebone House is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1952. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Whalebone House
- WRENN ID
- low-string-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whalebone House, High Street, Cley Next the Sea, NR25 7RN
- OS grid reference
- TG 045 438
- Coordinates
- 52.95266, 1.04322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whalebone House is an 18th-century house, now a shop, situated on the east side of High Street in Cley Next The Sea. It is constructed primarily of Quaternary beach flint and Chert pebble and cobbles, with dressings of Lincolnshire Limestone, and has a pantile roof with a gable parapet. The building comprises two bays over two storeys, with extensions to the rear.
The front facade features a stone plinth and rusticated stone quoins. The ground floor is of large galletted broken flints with a stone platband. The first floor is of squared knapped flints, topped by an oversailing cornice of mammalian vertebrae. A central vertical band between the bays is constructed of blocks of pebble flint outlined by vertebrae. The windows have stone surrounds, with alternating stone and brick voussoirs to flat arches, each featuring a projecting keystone. The ground floor has two fixed plate glass panes per opening; the first floor has two flush sashes with glazing bars. An axial stack is located on the left-hand gable and is shared with the adjacent house. The right gable facing an alleyway is of coursed flint with stone dressings and rusticated quoins, shaped stone kneelers, a central door with a quoined stone surround and flat arch with a decorated verge. A Venetian window in stone is situated in the attic, with rendered pilaster shafts flanking the sides, and blocked and rendered side lights.
A one-and-a-half storey lean-to is attached to the right, constructed of coursed flint. It has an ashlar stone surround to the door and a late 20th-century window to the left, also with rusticated stone surrounds. An upper floor features a horizontal sliding sash with glazing bars and a brick and stone surround. A range of two-storey cottages stands to the right, built of flint and brick under pantiles. These cottages have four bays, with a tripartite sash with a segmental head to the ground floor of the first bay.
Inside, the rear lean-to contains a groined two-bay double vault constructed of rendered wood, which forms the staircase.
Local climate
Whalebone House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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