Little Friars is a Grade II listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1981. House. 1 related planning application.

Little Friars

WRENN ID
sacred-quoin-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
South Norfolk MP: Ben Goldsborough (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1981
Type
House
Address
Little Friars, Church Street, Morningthorpe and Fritton, NR15 2QL
OS grid reference
TM 217 926
Coordinates
52.48622, 1.26501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Friars is a late 18th century red brick house located on the west side of Church Street in Morning Thorpe. The building features a black pantile hipped roof and stands two storeys tall with three bays. The original openings contain modern casements that are topped with straight rubbed brick arches. A central panelled door is set beneath a hood. At the rear and at the north end, there are modern flat roof wings.

Local climate

Little Friars sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 2020
  • 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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