NHER 9373 (Building record) - St John's Terrace, 3 to 13 (consecutive) Blackfriars Road

June 1972. Nos. 3-13 (consecutive) Listed Grade II.
Nos. 1-2 were bombed in 1941 and rebuilt, hence they are not Listed or included in this record.
Nos. 3-9 are pre-1846, Nos. 11-14 are of 1850.
No. 14 is listed separately as Belgrave Hotel (NHER 47044) and has cast iron canopy at first floor. Red brick pilasters divide the houses and Nos. 6-8 are set forward as well as having dormer attics.
See revised listed building description (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), 12 March 1999.

April 1976. Site visit.
(Except No. 2). Good Georgian terrace, centre section raised, end house (No. 14, NHER 47044) facetted. Brown brick with red brick divisions between houses.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 April 1976.

(S2) reports that in 1850 the land upon which St John's Terrace stands was sold by Richard Bagge to William Salmon Rolin. The poor rate records indicate that Rolin completed and let Nos 1-4 at the western end in 1851 and Nos. 10-14 in 1852. The middle section, Nos. 5-9 were not built until 1853-4 and this is marked by a slight forward projection and a change in balcony decoration. See (S2) for further information.
(S3) notes that this terrace was built in response to the opening of the railway station in 1844. (S3) suggests a slightly earlier date of construction, proposing that Nos. 1-9 were built by 1846 and the rest around 1850, but it is unclear how this conclusion has been reached.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 7 December 2018.