NHER 62835 (Building record) - Backham's Almshouses, 67-75 (odd) Goodwin's Road

(S1) describes these as of rough coursed carstone with red brick dressings. Large central gable with stone plaque with beehive, also one below the Tudor-style 3 light (1/1 pane sash lights) with dripstone (this one records trustees, rector and churchwardens). Plaque on north gable records the donors and the date. Similar windows in end gables. Pentices between projecting elements provide continuous porches sheltering the doorways. Steep pitched red pegtile roof. The land on which these almshouses were built was purchased at a cost of £300, and the almshouses built at a cost of £1,100.
(S2) notes that these almshouses were built following a bequest by Oscar Backham (printer) and his mother Caroline. A datestone records that these almshouses were erected in 1901. This is recorded on an inscribed panel above the window in the central gable. Beneath the window a stone panel with leaded lettering bears the names of six trustees, the rector and churchwardens.
These buildings are still used as almshouses and the Charity Commission records that they are for 'poor old married couples (living together), widows, widowers, spinsters and bachelors not less than sixty years old and who have resided in King's Lynn not less than twenty years'.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 18 June 2019.