NHER 46567 (Building record) - 56 High Street

Previously recorded under NHER 12013.

June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Shop. Mid 19th century. Brown brick with gault brick dressings. Slate roof. Three storeys in six bays on curved street frontage. Plate glass shopfront to entire length. Fenestration above of horned sashes without glazing bars, those to first floor with arched recesses in gault brick, the second-floor sashes under gauged skewback arches. Corbelled eaves cornice. Gabled roof with three stacks at intervals.
INTERIOR of no historic interest."
Information from (S1).
S. Spooner (NLA) 8 September 2006. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

November 1977. Field Observation.
147 Norfolk Street/56 High Street visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Curving 19th century façade to High Street.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1977. Information from record card (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 July 2023.

E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1977.

(S3) records this as the largest curved corner in King's Lynn. This was not an improvement required by the Paving Commissioners. However, in 1854 James Tuck, the owner of the building which stood at what was known as Eldred's Corner, approached the Commissioners with a view to them buying the freehold for street widening. The Commissioners did not do this but by April 1854 the property belonged to John Sheppard who found he was unable to agree a price with the Commissioners to rebuild. In 1864 a third owner, John Judd approached the Commissioners to sell them the property but they decided instead to compulsorily acquire it for £100. By January 1865 the building had been taken down, the corner widened and the remainder of the site enclosed. The site was purchased by Joseph Cox in July 1866 and the current building was erected shortly afterwards.
Information from (S3).
Throughout the latter part of the 19th century this building was used as a milliner's and ladies' outfitters, becoming a drapers in 1900, a grocer's and tea shop from 1910 until 1924, and Briggs shoe shop from 1926 to 1973.
Information from (S4).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 30 November 2018.