NHER 46587 (Building record) - Burkitt Homes

June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description Excerpt:
"Twelve almshouses. 1909. Built for and endowed by William Burkitt in memory of his uncle of the same name. Red brick. Machine tile roofs. Quadrangle plan. Symmetrical entrance facade to street composed of a two-storey central gatehouse with single-storey wings extending three bays right and left. Gatehouse entered through a four-centred arch. Polygonal angle turrets and two further polygonal engaged turrets flanking arch. Mullioned windows. Crenellated facade. Side wings with mullioned windows, gabled roofs and two ridge stacks each. Crenellated screen walls extend right and left, with pedestrian entrances. Under entrance arch is a commemorative plaque giving details quoted above. East range of court with a twin-gabled centre lit through two 4-light mullioned windows. Entrance doors to each house under heavy moulded timber hoods."
Information from (S1). Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
S. Spooner (NLA) 11 September 2006. Amended P. Watkins (HES), 12 April 2023.

The sundial in the garden was separately listed Grade II in 1972, see NHER 46954 for further details.

(S2) states that the unusual cast-iron railings and gates to the street were restored in 1989.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 16 November 2018.