NHER 12081 (Monument record) - Site of Ravenshaw House, Ravenshaw's Yard, Chapel Street

1972. Building survey.
The main house is of two storeys with a Mansard roof and dates from the second half of the 18th century. All the walls are of red brick and the roof is of pantiles. There is a similar two-storey modern extension to the west set at right-angles with a slate roof and a further single-storey extension with Mansard roof to the east with brick walls and a pantiled roof - this extension appears to be broadly contemporary with the original building. The main entrance to the house was via a garden or court on the north. The south wall of the house is built on top of a pre-existing garden wall.
See (S1) for further details and description of interior.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 8 July 2019.

House now demolished, stables derelict.
E. Rose (NAU), 6 July 1977.

(S2) notes that a Mr Ravenshaw is first mentioned in relation to a parcel of five tenements on the south side of Woolmarket Street (now St Nicholas' Street) in 1764. It is possible that the house was constructed around that date. (S2) also notes that the southern elevation of the house appears to have been constructed on or hard up against an existing and substantial brick wall approximately 2.2m high with a decorative rounded brick coping. This suggests the existence of a significant property boundary before the house was built.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 25 July 2019.

For details of stables formerly recorded under this number, see NHER 63496.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 8 July 2019.