NHER 12676 (Monument record) - Site of early medieval stone house, 22 King Street

19th century photographs before demolition show a late Early English (later 13th century) window, pointed central door and Early English shaft base inside house later altered.
(S1) suggests that the photographs show this to be a stone house, built between 1250 and 1275. The walls, which still stood on the street front to their full height, were of rubble with free stone dressings. On the ground floor the house was entered by a doorway with pointed head, set just north of centre of the building. At the south end at first floor there was a two-light traceried window. The corresponding position at the north end was occupied by an early nineteenth-century sash window, but while traces of two further thirteenth-century windows were reported to have been discovered, their precise locations are unknown. The length of the building would allow a row of up to four first-floor windows.
The house consisted of a main range parallel to the street and was of two storeys throughout. On the ground floor were two compartments of unequal size, the larger at least entered directly from the street. The chimneys built against north and south gables appear to be secondary and post-medieval.
Architecturally the house was of the highest quality, as we have come to expect from Lynn merchants' houses of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The nearest comparable house is 30-32 King Street, built some seventy years earlier.
See (S1) for further information. See also photographs (S2) and copy of newspaper cutting (S3).
E. Rose (NAU), 7 June 1982.

A. Carter (KLAS) found two sherds of 17th century red ware and an 18th century bottle in shallow trenching on site.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 June 1982.

(S4) states that this public house was renamed the Baker's Arms in 1887, having been known as The Bushel since 1740.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 9 July 2019.