NHER 12918 (Building record) - Barclay's Bank, 21 Tuesday Market Place (formerly Gurney's)

December 1951. Listed, Grade II.

November 1977. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Georgian, yellow brick, nine bays with three-bay pediment; reconstructed in 1955. Porte-Cochere was demolished in 1956 and present reproduction entrance made.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1977. Information from record card (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

See (S2) for photo of its original appearance.
E. Rose (NAU). Information from record card (S1).

Against rear wall is an early 19th century Napoleonic thirty pounder cannon used as a bollard - listed Grade II in its own right [and now recorded as NHER 63520].
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 24 June 1987. Information from record card (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

Listing (S3) gives date of original as 1768. States three good fireplaces survive; one Adam, one Kent.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 March 1999.

Information from [1]:
The building stands on the site of the original custom house said to date from 1630. Bell's print of about 1680 shows this as having a row of stepped gables with dormers and in the centre a statue in a niche. (S2)'s description of Bank House (NHER 22427) states that the statue of Charles I there is this statue, moved. Various sources say that statue was James I not Charles I but this may be an error; the print is not clear enough to judge if it is the same statue but the surround appears the same. Why should the statue have survived the Commonwealth only to be removed so soon after the Restoration?
See further detailed notes in file by source [1] giving the history of the Old Custom House and the bank. The date of 1685 for the moving of the statue comes from the original Pevsner, his source is unknown, see (S4).
E. Rose (NLA), 1 December 2003.

Listing Description excerpt:
"House. 1768. Became offices of the Lynn Bank 1869, amalgamated 1896 with others to form Barclay's Bank. Entire façade and south return rebuilt 1957, interior remodelled extensively c1984. Brick, roof to rear of slate. Three-storey facade in nine bays, centre three broken forward under a pediment. Three re-used engaged columns flank central door and windows. Fenestration of sashes. INTERIOR. Retains three chimneypieces. Top floor south-east room and that to room immediately below are late 18th century: delicate Adamesque swags and urn motifs. First-floor central hall with a Kentian style chimneypiece: bulbous scrolled jambs supporting gadrooned cornice above a frieze with high relief carvings of two birds and abundant vegetation."
Information from (S3).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S3) for the current listing details.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 26 November 2018. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

(S5) records that this building had been erected as a mansion for a leading merchant, George Hogge, in 1768. It also notes that Ellis Middleton oversaw the 1957 rebuilding.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 26 November 2018.

For details of cannon bollard to rear previously recorded under this number, see NHER 63520.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 24 July 2019.