The Former Courthouse including railings to facade

Hayes & Storr Solicitors including railings to facade, County Court Road, King's Lynn, PE30 5EJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210671
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: The Former Courthouse including railings to facade
Statutory Address:: Hayes & Storr Solicitors including railings to facade, County Court Road, King's Lynn, PE30 5EJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210671
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:: The Former Courthouse including railings to facade
Statutory Address 1:: Hayes & Storr Solicitors including railings to facade, County Court Road, King's Lynn, PE30 5EJ

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Hayes & Storr Solicitors including railings to facade, County Court Road, King's Lynn, PE30 5EJ

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County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TF 62119 19766

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 November 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

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KING'S LYNN COUNTY COURT ROAD The Former Courthouse including railings to facade

(Formerly listed as ST JAMES' ROAD County Court including railings to facade, previously listed as: LONDON ROAD (East side) County Court)

07/06/72

GV II

County Court. 1861. Gault brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Italian palazzo style. Two storeys and attic in five bays arranged 1-3-1, the openings arched. Stone quoins to ground floor. Windows are sashes with glazing bars and keystones to this floor. Centre three openings have rusticated surrounds, the left opening being the doorway. Double-leaf panelled door. Heavy string course with dentils, almost a cornice.

First-floor windows have a continuous string course and are fitted with C20 casements. The arched portion of the windows retain their margin glazing. Between a further string course and the overhanging, Palazzo-like cornice, are five small attic windows. On the cornice is an achievement carrying the Royal Arms. Hipped roof with four irregularly disposed stacks, each with its own cornice. The two-bay south return is similar.

Railings to facade: gault brick piers, iron stiles with scrolled braces, square section verticals with pyramid finials.

INTERIOR. Only staircase survives. Paired cast-iron decorative balusters. Wreathed handrail.

Listing NGR: TF6211919766

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 384266
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.