NHER 34208 (Building record) - Ladybridge House, 30 Nelson Street

Early 18th century house with mid to late 18th century additions.

December 1951. Listed, Grade II.
House is of brown brick with Roman Doric doorcase; sash windows; ovolo moulded platbands and cornice; internal panelling, fireplace and stairs.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 16 February 1999.

The garden walls to the south and east of the house (which incorporate a 16th-century stone doorway and window from a demolished building) were separately listed Grade II in June 1972. These are now recorded separately as NHER 68956.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 17 March 2025.

According to (S3) the south elevation of this building was given a new front following the demolition of the Three Cranes public house (NHER 64103) to the south in 1816. This work was completed with the erection of the garden wall which on the inside carries a date stone inscribed 'W.O. 1818', referring to the then owner, William Oxley, who was paid £150 for the improvement works.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"House. Early 18th century with features of mid and late 18th century. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Machine tile roofs. Façade of two storeys and dormer attic in four bays. Panelled door to right set within panelled reveals. Timber doorcase comprising a pair of engaged fluted Roman Doric columns supporting an open pediment above a metope frieze. Three sash windows to ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Four similar first-floor windows. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice below gabled roof. One central gabled dormer with sash and glazed side panels. Roof is half-hipped to south. Door leads to a passage to garden front emerging under a two-bay hipped trellis portico via a half-glazed door set within a good timber doorcase: panelled reveals; reeded and fluted pilasters below block architraves and open pediment; six-vaned fanlight. Garden elevation in two distinct parts defined by varying roof slope. West section with a late 18th-century sash to ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Behind trellis is a second doorway similar to the passage doorway. To right of this section is a late 19th-century single-storey canted bay with sashes and a hipped slate roof. Three sash windows to first floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice, and two gabled dormers in gabled roof. Ridge stack to left. East section lacks bay discipline. Simple doorcase to left with panelled reveals and open pediment. To right is a triple sash with glazing bars and gauged a skewback arch, and a single similar sash right again at the end of the elevation. First floor lit through one double sash with details as before and a single sash to its right. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof. Two gabled dormers with sashes. Ridge stack at junction of the twp parts of the elevation. To the rear of the east section is an outshut under a catslide roof with graded Cumberland slate. Doorcase with a pediment supported on scrolled consoles. To the left is a late 18th-century sash with glazing bars in a restored early 18th-century flush frame. The double sash to the right of the doorway is similar.
Interior: Central south ground-floor room with large-frame masons' mitre panelling of c.1740. Late 18th-century fireplace with Vitruvian scroll. Staircase is late 18th century: stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Ground floor west room facing street is entered through a panelled door with a blocked fanlight; it has reeded surrounds to the windows, the door and a cupboard; palmette cornice."
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the full listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 17 March 2025.