William Herrings Almshouses
WILLIAM HERRINGS ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NETHERGATE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171629
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- William Herrings Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- WILLIAM HERRINGS ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NETHERGATE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171629
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- William Herrings Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLIAM HERRINGS ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NETHERGATE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WILLIAM HERRINGS ALMSHOUSES, 1-6, NETHERGATE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harpley
- National Grid Reference:
- TF7874425886
Details
TF 72 NE
1/37
HARPLEY
NETHERGATE STREET (west side)
No.1 to 6 William Herrings Almshouses
24.6.86
G.V.
II
Almshouses. Dated 1850. English bond red brick, black brick header dressings, stone dressings, pentagonal slate roofs. Single storey, arranged in 'U' plan, originally 3 north and south and 2 central cottages. High Victorian Jacobean.
Central range has central rectangular bow window, 5 fixed lattic work cast iron casements, hipped slate roof. Shaped gable with ogee apex and finial, ECB in brick headers, polished red granite plaque with inscription "William Herrings' Almshouses erected and endowed MDCCCL". 2 boarded doors, 2 4-centred arches pierce screens connectin with north and south ranges. Stone parapets. Damaged cresting to ridge. Central stack with plinths only surviving of 4 round shaft stacks.
Ranges to north and south have 3 bay returns with 3 2-light fixed cast iron casement lattice windows. 3 boarded doors. Plinths only of 2 sets of ridge stacks. Returned shaped gables with 4-light casements, brick header diapering with "W" in south, "H" in north gable. Stone quoins, kneeler and shaped gable parapets.
Listing NGR: TF7874425886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221905
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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