House surveys in Norfolk

Norfolk is a large, rural county with the medieval city of Norwich at its heart and a long coastline running from King's Lynn round to Great Yarmouth. Flint is the signature building material, often with brick dressings and pantile or thatched roofs, and Norfolk has more surviving medieval churches than any other county. The west has carrstone around King's Lynn, and Breckland around Thetford has sandy heath. Survey issues include old chalk mines beneath parts of Norwich, coastal erosion along the north-east coast, tidal flood risk in Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn, boulder clay subsidence, and flint and lime-mortar walls that need sympathetic repair.