NHER 34293 (Building record) - Buckingham Terrace, 60 to 77 London Road

1951. Listed Grade II
Terrace of houses. Built 1825 for Society of Friends who owned them until 1924.
No. 77 at end was the house of the builder, with bay window to north. Other houses of three storeys and two bays, window above door blind, but No. 77 is three bays with bay window to north. Carriage arch between 65 and 66 with pediment above. No. 60 at south end has shop front. Brown brick constuction, slate roofs to front, mixed with pantiles at rear. Sash windows under flat arches, geometric fanlights to doors, sting course between floors. No. 77 converted to flats 1970; front garden railings of terrace of 1989 copying original pattern.
Information from (S1).
These are entered on NHER as typical of the brown brick terraces constructed over the former South Lynn Common inside the Defences in the early 19th century.
E. Rose (NLA), 12 March 1999.

Copy of (S2) in file.
See also (S3).

The terrace is named after Thomas Buckingham, a Lynn merchant and Quaker who founded the Downham Market meeting in 1701, and who left the land to the Friends; at the rear is the site of a Quaker cemetery but with no headstones.
E. Rose (NLA), 12 November 2002.

See NHER 62807 for details of the Quaker burial ground formerly recorded under this number.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 9 May 2019.

The Quakers owned land and cottages in South Lynn since they were bequeathed to them by Thomas Buckingham in the late 17th century, with the cottages fronting onto the northern side of Southgate Street. Behind the cottages lay a pasture that in 1804 gained a frontage to the New Road. In 1806 this pasture was described as 'land for building' but it was not until 1821 that the Quakers applied to the Paving Commissioners for a small piece of land to level their frontage as they intended to let the site on building leases. In June 1824 it was noted that the cottages were 'in a very dilapidated condition' and on 20 June 1825 it was decided to pull down the cottages and let the site and adjoining pasture. The builder James Gathergood leased the site on 25 March 1825 for £45 per annum and started constructing a terrace of houses. However, he died in October 1826 and in March 1827 the lease was sold to Edmund Trundle of Swaffham. He wrote in 1829 requesting a remission in rent noting that all of the buildings had been completed in the first year (i.e. by March 1828) and that he had spent nearly £5000 on the project. His letter describes the houses and their construction in detail, and notes that he surpassed the original specification for the houses. Gathergood had built the first four houses (Nos. 60-63 London Road) and Trundle the remaining 14 (Nos. 64-77 London Road). Between them they were responsible for creating the longest uniform Georgian terrace in King's Lynn.
Information from (S3).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.