NHER 39333 (Building record) - Exton's Road

9 April 2003. Visited.
Street formed of double terrace of houses.
Brown brick, two storeys; arched doorways, sash window to each floor.
Dates from early 19th century; note names Peel and Aberdeen of adjacent streets, part of uncompleted plan. Reason for naming street after a Mayor of Lynn of 1730s not known.
Two houses at west end combined to make Seven Sisters Public House 1857.
Some houses have out-of-keeping alterations, but in the main a very fine survival of complete late Georgian/early Victorian street.
Proposed for conservation area status if it does not get pulled down in the meantime.
See (S1) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 15 April 2003.

Until renamed in 1851, Exton's Road was known as Brick Kiln Road, reflecting the fact that it served two brick-making sites (one of which is recorded as NHER 13528). The site comprising 3.5 acres was sold in 1848 and included a brick field with a small cottage, kiln and sheds. The land was bought by William Salmon Rolin who initially continued to work the site as a brickyard. In 1851 he decided to develop the site for housing, but in 1852 was charged at the magistrates' court with having started to build four houses on Exton's Road with thin partition walls which did not meet with the Paving Commissioners' requirements. However, Rolin continued undeterred and was again brought before the magistrates later in 1852 and again in January 1853 for continued non-compliance, having constructed partition walls just 4.5 inches thick. In October 1854 Rolin went bankrupt and the development of the site halted. Rolin's planned developments in Peel Street and Aberdeen Street never went ahead, though further building work did take place in the 1870s in Graham Street and on the east side of Russell Street.
See (S2) for further information.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 20 November 2018.

The two westernmost houses on the north side of Exton's Road were combined in 1857 to make a public house, The Seven Sisters. This ceased operating as a public house in 2002 when permission was granted to convert it to residential use.
Information from (S3).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 20 November 2018.