NHER 66620 (Building record) - Former almshouses, Gaywood Road

Almshouses believed to occupy the site of the medieval hospital of St Mary Magdalen (NHER 11963).
Previously recorded under NHER 11963.

1951. Listed Grade II.
See (S1) for further details.

Rectangle of almshouses west of school is on site of St Mary Magdalen's hospital...Listing (S1) gives the date of the almshouses as 1649...Shaped gables, original timber doors, sundial dated 1738, pump.
Information from record card (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 6 December 2022.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"Eight almshouses built around courtyard. 13th-century origins, destroyed in Siege of Lynn 1643, rebuilt 1649, restored 1904, restored and modernised 1965. Brick. Plaintile roofs. One storey. North side is entrance. Gable ends of east and west wings close façade with Dutch gables. Gabled entrance with double-leaf timber studded door. Datestone in gable commemorates rebuilding 1649 following fire. Three three-light casement windows, the one immediately right of entrance with double sunk-quadrant mouldings. Short passage leads to courtyard. Plank doors to interiors, all with dog-gates and all under gabled hoods on brackets. Casements mainly 18th century, but five retains a two-light sunk-quadrant moulded window. Two ridge stacks to north and south wings, one to others. North-east stack with stone sundial slab dated 1738. In centre of court is a cast-iron hexagonal water pump.
INTERIOR. Little visible. Large arched braces to collars date from 1904."
Information from (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 6 December 2022.

The 17th-century walls and gates enclosing the area to the north of the almshouses were separately listed Grade II in 1972. Previously also noted under NHER 11963, these are now recorded as NHER 63494.
P. Watkins (HES), 6 December 2022.