Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6219NW ST JAMES' ROAD
610-1/10/133 Framingham's Hospital
07/06/72
(Formerly Listed as:
LONDON ROAD
(East side)
Nos.1-12 (Consecutive)
Framingham's Almshouses)

II

Almshouses. 1846-48, by Sharman of Spalding. Red brick with
stone dressings. Cut slate roofs. 3 blocks arranged as a
courtyard and linked by short crenellated walls with doorways.
Centre block is single-storeyed with a large projecting
central gable articulated by diagonal buttresses terminating
in finials. Central arched door flanked by a cinquefoiled
light right and left, all under square hoods on label stops. 2
cinquefoiled lights in gable under a 4-centred arch. Either
side are one arched doorway under a square hood, each flanked
by a 2-light arched casement, also with hoods on labels. Stone
quoins and eaves cornice. Gabled roof with 4 ridge stacks,
each with twin decorated flues. North and south blocks are
reduced versions of the same design: central gable is lower,
does not project and has no doorway; west gable ends have
polygonal corner turrets with tall finials and the west gable
walls have one crenellated oriel each. 5 ridge stacks each.

Listing NGR: TF6219519699

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585654

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)