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William Herrings Almshouses

A Grade II Listed Building in Harpley, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.8009 / 52°48'3"N

Longitude: 0.65 / 0°39'0"E

OS Eastings: 578745

OS Northings: 325887

OS Grid: TF787258

Mapcode National: GBR Q64.H4D

Mapcode Global: WHKQ2.YVPM

Plus Code: 9F42RM22+92

Entry Name: William Herrings Almshouses

Listing Date: 24 June 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1171629

English Heritage Legacy ID: 221905

ID on this website: 101171629

Location: Harpley, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, PE31

County: Norfolk

District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Civil Parish: Harpley

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Harpley St Lawrence

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

Tagged with: Almshouse

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Description


TF 72 NE
1/37

HARPLEY
NETHERGATE STREET (west side)
No.1 to 6 William Herrings Almshouses

24.6.86

G.V.
II

Almshouses. Dated 1850. English bond red brick, black brick header dressings, stone dressings, pentagonal slate roofs. Single storey, arranged in 'U' plan, originally 3 north and south and 2 central cottages. High Victorian Jacobean.
Central range has central rectangular bow window, 5 fixed lattic work cast iron casements, hipped slate roof. Shaped gable with ogee apex and finial, ECB in brick headers, polished red granite plaque with inscription "William Herrings' Almshouses erected and endowed MDCCCL". 2 boarded doors, 2 4-centred arches pierce screens connectin with north and south ranges. Stone parapets. Damaged cresting to ridge. Central stack with plinths only surviving of 4 round shaft stacks.
Ranges to north and south have 3 bay returns with 3 2-light fixed cast iron casement lattice windows. 3 boarded doors. Plinths only of 2 sets of ridge stacks. Returned shaped gables with 4-light casements, brick header diapering with "W" in south, "H" in north gable. Stone quoins, kneeler and shaped gable parapets.


Listing NGR: TF7874425886

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