Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE NELSON STREET
610-1/9/146 (West side)
01/12/51 Nos.15 AND 17
(Formerly Listed as:
NELSON STREET
(West side)
No.15)
(Formerly Listed as:
NELSON STREET
(West side)
No.17)

GV II*

House. Possibly C17, re-fronted c1740 for the Browne family of
merchants; later alterations. Occupied by Health Authority
until 1989. Brown brick. Plain tiled roof.
East front of 3 storeys in 6 bays defined by rusticated stone
quoins rising to cornice and parapet.
Entrance off-set to right: engaged Tuscan columns support
pediment above plain frieze. Panelled door below 5-vaned
fanlight is set within a round arch. Sash windows with glazing
bars and gauged skewback arches. Returns have blind windows
and express the chimneybreasts which emerge at the apices of
the gabled roof.
Attached to south is the single-storey No.17, part of the
premises since C19. Two sashes with glazing bars to left of a
timber doorcase supporting a pediment on keystones and a pair
of consoles. Parapet and plain tiled roof. 2 sashes to the top
floor of the north side are mid C18, with glazing bars.
INTERIOR. Door leads into barrel-vaulted passage with one
groined bay. Staircase hall to left containing open well
staircase of wrought-iron balusters and ramped and wreathed
timber handrail. Pedimented ornamental picture surround to
north wall and geometric plaster ceiling of large forms. The
top floor east rooms have re-used small-frame C17 panelling.
Main ground-floor south room with very large-framed panelling,
modillion plaster cornice and mahogany doors. Principal first
floor rooms similar. Roof of rear wing of purlin and rafter
type, the common rafters all cut and replaced in C20. Roof of
front range not accessible.

Listing NGR: TF6177619686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555322

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)