5, KING STREET
5, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220161
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 5, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220161
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 5, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, KING 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:
- 5, KING 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 61621 20084
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/69 (West side) 01/12/51 No.5
GV II*
House, now offices. Mid C18 with mid C19 top storey. Buff brick facade, red brick otherwise. Slate roof. 3 storeys and dormer attic in 4 bays. Pedimented doorcase to left standing on engaged Ionic columns below a metope frieze. 3 sashes to ground floor and 4 to first floor, all with glazing bars and under gauged skewback arches. Stone bracket cornice at original height of building. C19 top floor is lit through four horned sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Dentil cornice below pierced brick parapet. Gabled roof with two gabled dormers. Internal gable-end stacks. INTERIOR. Passageway entrance leads to rear and a square staircase hall. Very fine C18 staircase round open well. Open string. 2 turned balusters per tread, the tread ends with scroll carving. Ramped and wreathed handrail. Matching dado panelling. Fluted Ionic engaged columns support staircase at each turn. Gallery formed at first floor. Round-arched staircase window at this level, with glazing bars. Plaster modillion coving and elaborate chandelier rose. Ground floor front room is enriched with large-frame panelling. Over fireplace is an eared plaster picture frame on brackets with flanking scrolled consoles. Within apron is a fruit and flower swag, above is another, and fruit and flower trails decorate the sides. Main room above with similar plasterwork and panelling. Remainder of principal rooms also with large-framed panelling. Front range and rear wings with staggered butt purlin roofs.
Listing NGR: TF6162120084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384140
- 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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