Westgate House
WESTGATE HOUSE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195343
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate House
- Statutory Address:
- WESTGATE HOUSE, 42, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195343
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Westgate House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTGATE HOUSE, 42, CHAPEL 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:
- WESTGATE HOUSE, 42, CHAPEL 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:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 61839 20318
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6120SE CHAPEL STREET 610-1/7/31 (East side) 01/12/51 No.42 Westgate House
GV II
House, now offices. Early C18 with an early C19 facade. Brown brick with red brick returns. Slate roof, plain tiled to rear wing. 2-storey asymmetrical facade. Central panelled door within panelled reveals and below a 4-vaned fanlight. Doorcase of engaged fluted Tuscan columns supporting an open pediment. One wide sash window left and right with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. To extreme left is a pedestrian doorway below a blind first-floor window. 4 horned sashes to remainder of first floor. Modillion timber eaves cornice below gabled roof, which has 2 distinct pitches, the southern higher. Ridge stack at division of pitches, internal south gable-end stack and an added external stack to the north gable. Original gable-line of early C18 house is apparent here, of one storey, probably with a dormer attic To rear on south side is a 2-storey plain tiled block; sash windows with glazing bars; stack on rear roof slope to south.
Listing NGR: TF6183920318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384087
- 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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