NHER 63528 (Monument record) - Site of 47-49 Chapel Street

This is the site of a timber-framed building, demolished in 1967. The house was built with one continuous jetty, suggesting it was built as two storeys, probably in the mid-16th century. The gable end chimney stacks suggest it was divided into two properties at a much lter date. A photograph dating from 1966 shows that the building was rendered and that it had four inserted sash windows on the eastern façade. Three sloping pitched dormers are visible in the roof, suggesting an attic storey probably created at a later date. Photographs of the building being demolished in January 1967 appear to show a pair of recesses or niches in the internal face of the first floor north wall which have ogee heads. The date and purpose of these niches is unclear but they are unusual in a non-ecclesiastical context. Ogee-headed windows are usually attributed to the 14th century. Another similar example, described as a piscina, was recorded at Lattice House (NHER 12005) a short distance to the south. These may be the stone windows with cusped heads in a 'recently demolished building on Chapel Street' to which (S2) refers. This wall appears to be of stone rubble construction. (S1) postulates that if this is the case, it may in fact be part of an earlier building, possibly even an early site for the friary church, which was eventually located on the other side of Chapel Street.
See (S1) for further information.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 25 July 2019.