NHER 34204 (Building record) - 33 and 34 Bridge Street

December 1951. Listed, Grade II.
See (S1).

This house was divided into two but re-united in 1967. It dates from the mid-16th century and was restored and altered in 1967. Brick and flint, re-fronted and colourwashed. Slate roof. Two-storey and dormer attic façade. To the right is a former late 19th century public house fascia of two window bays and a door. To left is former carriage passage supported by a hood on scrolled consoles. Passage now incorporated as entrance hall. Rear wall with a stepped buttress. Two-storey plain tiled cross wing to rear of No. 33 much altered.
Interior has a trefoiled re-used niche of ecclesiastical origin. First floor of No. 33 has, to street range, a sunk quadrant-moulded bridging beam with bar stops and a blocked four-light ovolo-moulded timber casement. Roof of clasped purlins and canted collars, principals not diminished. Roof of No. 34 similar except collars are straight.
Information from revised listing description (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 16 February 1999, amended A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 12 February 2020.

Nos 32-36 Bridge Street were scheduled for demolition in the 1960s but were bought and restored by local architect Desmond Wait, a process that altered their appearance as little as possible. Behind their stuccoed fronts they are all mid-16th century, of brick and flint.
It seems likely that this pair of houses may have been restored at or around the same time.
Information from (S2).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.

(S3) reports that No. 32 was The Beehive public house from 1839 until 1912 when it was closed by compensation. However (S4) clearly denotes No. 33 (NHER 34204) as a public house in 1909, and the frontage makes No. 33 a much more convincing candidate for the Beehive public house.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.

A 1694 halfpenny was found pushed into one of the rafters of No. 33 Bridge Street during its reconstruction.
Information previously recorded under NHER 1245.
See (S5).
A. Carter (KLAS), amended by A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 16 January 2019.

For details of other buildings previously recorded under this number see records for 32 Bridge Street (NHER 63563), 35 Bridge Street (NHER 63564) and 36 Bridge Street (NHER 63565).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 12 February 2020.