Clifton House
CLIFTON HOUSE, 17, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1210377
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton House
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFTON HOUSE, 17, QUEEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1210377
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Clifton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFTON HOUSE, 17, QUEEN 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:
- CLIFTON HOUSE, 17, QUEEN 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 61653 19937
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6119NE QUEEN STREET 610-1/9/177 (West side) 01/12/51 No.17 Clifton House (Formerly Listed as: QUEEN STREET (West side) No.17 (Clifton House) & Tower at rear of Clifton House)
GV I
House. C13, C14, rebuilt in parts C16 and C17, refronted 1708 (dated on lead rainwater hopper). Built originally as 2 hall houses. Brick. Plain tiled roofs. 1708 elevation to Queen Street of 2 storeys in 7 bays. Doorcase in second bay (from left) comprising 2 barley-twist columns in antis with modified Corinthian capitals. Flat hood with guttae carrying a segmental pediment. Panelled doors. Small cellar windows to right. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. Timber eaves cornice below hipped roof. Stack right of centre and on south roof slope. North elevation to King's Staithe Lane with large stepped external stack. Cornice continues. Short wing projects west along Lane in 2 storeys. 3 sashes to ground floor, 6 to first floor, the 2 to east taller. Glazing bars. Gabled roof. South side of house forms north side of courtyard. Panelled door to right, 4 sashes to ground floor, 5 to first floor, all with glazing bars. Gabled roof. At west end is look-out tower, the last late C16 example surviving in Lynn and a fine example of C16 brick work with many similarities in its planning to late medieval solar towers in this region e.g. Caistor in Norfolk. Square plan, 5 storeys, with a 6-storey polygonal staircase tower against south side. One room each floor. One 3-light casement to each floor of east and west elevations, all with pediments. Panelled door under broken pediment to east. Newel of staircase formed of a single ship's mast. Wall paintings in third floor room. INTERIOR. Mid C14 four-bay undercroft beneath Queen Street/King's Staithe Lane return. 4 central octagonal stone piers with moulded capitals carry flat brick rib vaults. C13 door in south wall leads into a room with a tiled C13 floor, the tiles glazed with decorative patterns. Remains of central hearth. Staircase probably 1708: 3 twisted balusters per tread, carved tread-ends.
Listing NGR: TF6165319937
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384244
- 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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