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SD4761NE KING STREET 1685-1/7/140 (West side) 18/02/70 Nos.34, 36 AND 38 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.34) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.36) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No.38)

GV II

Row of 3 houses, now office, shop, and surgery. Late C18, altered C19 and C20. Sandstone ashlar in narrow courses, with ashlar dressings. Slate roof, and chimneys of brick and stone. Double-depth plan, each house single fronted. 3 storeys over a high basement, and 3 bays per house, Nos 34 & 36 built with adjoining doorways and No.38 with doorway in 3rd bay. Chamfered quoins at corners. Each house has a raised entrance approached by a flight of 6 steps protected by bar railings with ramped handrails, and a recessed door with raised plain surround. Nos 36 & 38 both have partly-glazed doors with raised and fielded panels, the glazing to No.36 being treated as an integral overlight with diamond-patterned glazing bars. No.36 in the centre has an inserted shop-front to the left of its door surround replacing the original ground floor, and No.38 to the left has a basement area protected by railings carried round from the steps, with urn finials to the standards and a gate opposite to the basement doorway. The steps to No.34 have been replaced in concrete. The windows have painted raised plain surrounds, but the 1st-floor windows of No.38 have lower sills than the others. No.34 has sashed windows without glazing bars on the principal floors and 4-pane sashes at 2nd floor. No.36 has 4-pane sashes. No.38 has 12- and 9-pane sashes. Ridge chimneys at the junctions. Rear has inter alia a bow-window at ground floor of No.38. INTERIOR: No.38 has a doglegged staircase with open string, carved brackets, 2 slim turned balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail with wreathed curtail. At the 1st and 2nd floors three C18 fireplaces with fielded panels and raised or fluted keystones.

Listing NGR: SD4758161543

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)