The Old Fire Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1979. Fire station. 1 related planning application.
The Old Fire Station
- WRENN ID
- fossil-chimney-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1979
- Type
- Fire station
- Address
- The Old Fire Station, Hall Staithe, Fakenham, NR21 9BW
- OS grid reference
- TF 918 296
- Coordinates
- 52.8299, 0.84563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Fire Station, dated 1911, is a red brick building with moulded brick and terracotta dressings. It has a slate roof with crested ridge tiles and gabled ends, featuring wide eaves. The building is single-storeyed and includes two segmental arched doorways with folding doors, the arches detailed with scalloped bricks and keyblocks. Each side of the doorways is flanked by a moulded terracotta panel displaying a swag and the date. A central inscription reads "Fire Station". Above the centre is a fleche or bellcote. This building possesses group value from its contribution to the streetscape.
Local climate
The Old Fire Station receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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