The Priory Gatehouse (Or Abbey) Gatehouse Wall Adjoining Priory Gatehouse to South, Fronting High Street is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1951. A C15 Gatehouse.
The Priory Gatehouse (Or Abbey) Gatehouse Wall Adjoining Priory Gatehouse to South, Fronting High Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-gargoyle-wren
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1951
- Type
- Gatehouse
- OS grid reference
- TF 934 368
- Coordinates
- 52.89397, 0.87375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priory Gatehouse, also known as the Abbey Gatehouse, is a 15th-century structure located at the west end of the Priory Church, facing High Street in Little Walsingham. It is built of flint and rubble, featuring stone dressings. The gatehouse has a large, moulded four-centred archway, which is complemented by two tall niches above it, with three panels in between that contain shields. Inside the archway, there is a smaller four-centred arch with large oak doors. The original interior was vaulted, but it now has a new concrete floor. Above, there is a room that includes an original fireplace and a mullion/transom window with flanking niches. The high flint wall that adjoins the south side facing High Street is constructed with brick and flint at lower levels and features later 19th-century battlements with a bracketed cornice.
Local climate
The Priory Gatehouse (Or Abbey) Gatehouse Wall Adjoining Priory Gatehouse to South, Fronting High Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% 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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