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)

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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

• Wikidata Q26585654

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)