The Old Parsonage is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1987. Former vicarage, old people's home. 7 related planning applications.

The Old Parsonage

WRENN ID
white-rood-gilt
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 October 1987
Type
Former vicarage, old people's home
Address
The Old Parsonage, Bungay Road, Kirby Cane
OS grid reference
TM 370 937
Coordinates
52.48985, 1.48968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Parsonage is a former vicarage, now serving as an old people's home, built in the 18th century. It features red brick construction with a black glazed pantile roof and stands two storeys tall with attics. The principal facade faces north and consists of five bays, with an additional bay added later to the east, which is slated. The windows are sash style with glazing bars and have rubbed skewback arches above them. The central doorway has a six-panel door and is framed by a doorcase with an open pediment supported by fluted pilasters. Above the door is a semicircular fanlight with web-pattern glazing bars.

The building includes two flat-roofed attic dormers, each with square six-light sashes, and has parapet gables with internal stacks. There is a chimney stack located off centre to the west along the ridge line. To the south, there are later parapeted extensions that create a double pile structure with two large unequal square bays. These extensions feature sashes without glazing bars and large 20th-century casements. Additionally, there is a two-storey range with a hipped slate roof in the south-east angle.

Local climate

The Old Parsonage receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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