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Latitude: 52.7522 / 52°45'7"N
Longitude: 0.3949 / 0°23'41"E
OS Eastings: 561729
OS Northings: 319860
OS Grid: TF617198
Mapcode National: GBR N3Q.JN2
Mapcode Global: WHJP7.129Y
Plus Code: 9F42Q92V+VX
Entry Name: Gaolhouse
Listing Date: 1 December 1951
Last Amended: 26 July 1993
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1195399
English Heritage Legacy ID: 384316
ID on this website: 101195399
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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KING'S LYNN
TF6119NE SATURDAY MARKET PLACE
610-1/9/198 (North side)
01/12/51 Gaolhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
SATURDAY MARKET PLACE
Courthouse)
GV II*
Courthouse and prison, now offices and exhibition centre. 1784
by William Tuck. Gault brick with ashlar dressings. Plain
tiled roof. 3 storeys in 5 bays. Rusticated quoins and string
courses between each floor. Central rusticated field rising
into first floor to terminate in an open pediment: arched
doorway to ground floor below a recessed panel containing iron
shackles and chains. Under pediment is a barred lunette. This
grille pattern repeated in fanlight of the panelled door.
Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback
arches. Low parapet with a stone achievement bearing a sundial
arm. Gabled roof with internal gable-end stacks. INTERIOR.
Prison yard to rear entered through an iron-clad lattice door
with original fittings. Rectangular yard enclosed by high
walls of surrounding buildings now contains brick cell block
of 1937. Within west and north walls of court are four C18
cells. Round-headed brick openings contain iron-clad timber
doors flanked by shuttered iron lattice grilles. 3 western
cells have groin-vaulted interiors, northern one has flat
brick ceiling.
Listing NGR: TF6172919860
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