Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/99 (East side) 01/12/51 Nos.40 AND 42 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.40) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.42)

GV II

Shop and house, now offices. Late C14, C20 shopfront to No.40, early C19 brown brick skin to No.42, extensively altered late C20. Timber-framed. Pantile roof. No.40 with double plate-glass shopfront with central door. Rendered first floor with 2 sashes with glazing bars set within flush frames. No.42 has an arched doorway to right fitted with a late C20 door. Shop front to left fills former segmentally-arched carriage entrance to rear which is now incorporated into premises. 2 sashes light first floor: glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Continuous gabled roof with 2 dormers, that to No.40 with a rounded head, other flat-topped and late C20, both with late C20 casements. Rear with a 2-storey and attic C20 cross wing to south in yellow brick and a glass-roofed outshut to north. INTERIOR. Studwork of C14 shop remains. Doorway in No.42 leads into a timber-framed passage terminating in an arched doorway (no door and only its south arched brace survives). Passageway itself arch-braced, but only southern studs remain. Doorway opens right into No.40, one arched brace in situ. One arched brace remains to front jetty and possibly pentice. No.42 was gutted and made into a service access archway 1960's, and converted again to a building in 1987. Two joists remain to first floor. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TF6165320206

External Links

• Wikidata Q26514929

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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