This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
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
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0272 IOE Records taken by Graham Brown; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Graham Brown. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Brown, Graham
Rights Holder: Brown, Graham
Brick, Slate, Stone, Victorian Almshouse, Religious Ritual And Funerary, Health And Welfare, Domestic, Residential Building
Our website works best with the latest version of the browsers below, unfortunately your browser is not supported. Using an old browser means that some parts of our website might not work correctly.
