NHER 34288 (Building record) - 11 King Street

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Summary

A three storey red brick and colourwash house of about 1810. It has a façade of six window bays including a carriage arch. Inside is an ornate staircase and a main ground floor room with two Ionic columns linked by an architrave. The first floor drawing room is elliptical in shape.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TF62SW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

December 1951. Listed Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"House, now offices. C.1810-20. Red brick, rendered and colourwashed to east (street) facade. Roof not visible. Three storeys in six bays. Three sashes to left at ground floor with glazing bars. Right three bays consist of a segmental carriage arch to passage to rear flanked by one panelled door each side under nine-vaned fanlights. Door to right leads to No. 13A. Six sashes to each of both floors above, in two groups of three separated by a shallow recessed panel. Narrower recesses also between windows and at ends of elevation. Glazing bars. Below first-floor sills is a guilloche string course. Parapet with three swags, one over each of the principal recessions. Passageway with two round-arched recessed panels either side.
Interior: Stick baluster closed-string staircase, the balusters with arched wrought-iron links top and bottom. Ramped and wreathed handrail and dado rail. Main ground-floor front room with two free-standing fluted Ionic columns linked by an architrave and a leaf-trail plaster cornice. Western ground floor room with raised large-frame panelling. First-floor north room - originally the drawing room - has elliptical north and south walls and acanthus coving."
Formerly Freebridge Lynn Rural District Council Offices.
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 11 March 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

  • --- Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 503.
  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1195324.

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Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 10:15PM

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