Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/75 (East side) 01/12/51 No.8 Chancery House

GV II

House, now offices. Late C17 with late C18 gault-brick facade. Brick. Slate roof. 2 storeys and dormer attic in 4 bays. Panelled door set to left of elevation under a hood. 3 sash windows to ground floor with glazing bars and red-brick gauged skewback arches. 4 similar windows to first floor. Projecting timber eaves cornice. Gabled roof with 2 gabled dormers fitted with sashes. Internal gable-end stacks. Gabled 2 storey (and attic) cross wing to rear, rendered above ground floor. This and the rear elevation of main wall pierced by divers C19 and C20 window and door openings. INTERIOR. Stick baluster staircase with carved tread ends. Round newels. First-floor balustrade has turned balusters. Ground-floor front room partitioned. 2 rooms immediately above, that to north with large-framed panelling with bolection mouldings, c1700. Moulded cornice. C19 chimneypiece with, either side, a cupboard with panelled doors and H hinges. South room with similar panelling without the bolection mouldings.

Listing NGR: TF6164620084

External Links

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