NHER 62811 (Building record) - Former Ford Garage, Out South Gates

January 2018. Site visit.
(S1) describes this as a 1950s brick frontage in a style derived from the International Modern style, uniting a shed probably of the 1920s and another larger post-War shed with west and south entrances. A garage until the early 21st century, now divided up into several different units.
By the 1920s the site was home to a motor garage run by John Davy and, probably in the 1920s, he built a shed which survives as part of the present structure. At some time in the mid-20th century the site was taken over by W H King who built both the present frontage, the offices behind to the north, and the large shed to the south which seems to have been a motor repair shop.
The roadside building is of greyish-brown brick. It has a flat roof. This building is long and low. Almost all of the ground floor is taken up with plate glass windows. At the north end the building is two-storey with a windowless front elevation to the upper floor bearing the word 'ford' in a thin, sans-serif font, and a small fin of the sort found on cinema frontages. This latter has three projecting rings which presumably once held a flagpole or perhaps a light neon sign. The tail of the 'f' of 'ford' stretches down and along to become a dripmould over the ground floor windows. On its north side, not readily visible from the road, are metal-framed concrete-lintelled windows which are also found on the single-storey range behind. Behind this range are two sheds with gabled roofs running east-west.
See (S1) for further detail. See also (S2).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 19 June 2019.