81,81A,81B, HIGH STREET
81,81A,81B, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195317
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 81,81A,81B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 81,81A,81B, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195317
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 81,81A,81B, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 81,81A,81B, HIGH 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:
- 81,81A,81B, HIGH 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 61729 20159
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6120SE HIGH STREET 610-1/7/63 (West side) 01/12/51 Nos.81, 81A AND 81B (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Nos.81 AND 81A)
GV II*
Shop with offices above and to rear wing extending west down north side of Library Court. Early C17, remodelled internally early C18, mid C19 refronting in Italianate style. Brick with stone facade. Pantiled and slate roofs. Facade is No.81 to ground floor with the offices above numbered No.81A. 3 storeys in 5 bays. C20 shopfront to right of entrance to Library Court, the entrance having an elaborate architrave with a heavy hood on scrolled brackets. Cast-iron grille over door. Main facade lit through sashes with one glazing bar each, the first-floor windows with alternatly pedimented and segmentally pedimented hoods. Projecting modillion cornice. Panelled parapet conceals roof. In Library Court are 2 ranges, the eastern being domestic quarters, the western warehouse accommodation, now in retail use. 2 storeys. West part entered through a panelled door under a glazed overlight with glazing bars. Panelled doorcase with scrolled consoles supporting a pedimented hood above triple keystones. One early C19 sash window to right with glazing bars. 2 further sashes and a C20 doorway to left of main door. First floor with 3 similar sashes and a C20 casement over the main door. Gabled roof. Western range is former warehouse, now No.81B. Entrance to right under a loading-bay door. To west end are 2 large early C18 sash windows: flush frames and glazing bars, the lower sashes fixed, each with an opening casement. Rebuilt gauged skewback arches. Two C19 sashes above. Elsewhere are divers other C19 windows. Gabled roof with 2 gabled dormers in south roof slope. 3 ridge stacks at intervals in rear ranges. INTERIOR. First floor room to facade with marble fire surround. Foliate frieze below mantelpiece. Decorated overmantel with a swan-necked pediment and hood above an egg-and-dart frieze. One panelled door right and left with egg-and-dart surrounds, a frieze above with lions' heads and a hood. A third door in west wall similar. Large-frame panelling with dado rail to north, west and south walls. All this c1735.
Listing NGR: TF6172920159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384130
- 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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