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3, King Street

A Grade II Listed Building in King's Lynn, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7541 / 52°45'14"N

Longitude: 0.3934 / 0°23'36"E

OS Eastings: 561623

OS Northings: 320070

OS Grid: TF616200

Mapcode National: GBR N3Q.B9J

Mapcode Global: WHJP7.01MH

Plus Code: 9F42Q93V+J9

Entry Name: 3, King Street

Listing Date: 1 December 1951

Last Amended: 26 July 1993

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1195319

English Heritage Legacy ID: 384137

ID on this website: 101195319

Location: King's Lynn, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, PE30

County: Norfolk

District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk

Electoral Ward/Division: St Margarets with St Nicholas

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: King's Lynn

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

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Description


KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/66 (West side) 01/12/51 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No 3 & Part of No 3 to North of entrance passage)

GV II

House. Late C15 hall house, remodelled early C18, refronted mid C18, split into flats late C20 when hall range demolished (crown-post over hall now in Lynn Museum), hall range rebuilt 1989 as flats. Red brick with yellow brick facade and slate roofs. Usual L-plan form with entrance passage set to right. No.3A to right of passage formerly part of this house. Facade of 2 storeys in 5 bays. Entrance to passage via an open-pedimented timber archway supported on engaged Ionic columns. 4 sash windows to left with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, 3 similar windows to first floor and, over the entrance, a wide Venetian window of mid C19 vintage. Wide timber modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof. Tall internal gable end stacks. To rear is a 2-storey, 4-bay, early C18 red brick range. Moulded platband between floors. 3 sashes and a door to ground floor and 4 sashes to first floor. Door is to left, the sashes late C18 replacements, with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Gabled roof. 3 gabled dormers with casements. Rear of street range with one similar sash to ground floor and 2 above. New range abutting to west. INTERIOR. Very fine early C18 open string staircase to left of entrance doorway. 3 barley-sugar balusters per tread, the tread-ends carved. Ramped moulded handrail runs between square newel stops, the stops supported by a cluster of 4 similar balusters. Ramped, but plain, dado panelling to match.

Listing NGR: TF6162320069

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