3, KING STREET

3, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195319
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
3, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
3, KING STREET
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Date:
2004-08-08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1195319
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Jul-1993
List Entry Name:
3, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
3, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
3, 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 61623 20069

Details

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/66 (West side) 01/12/51 No.3 (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET No 3 & Part of No 3 to North of entrance passage)

GV II

House. Late C15 hall house, remodelled early C18, refronted mid C18, split into flats late C20 when hall range demolished (crown-post over hall now in Lynn Museum), hall range rebuilt 1989 as flats. Red brick with yellow brick facade and slate roofs. Usual L-plan form with entrance passage set to right. No.3A to right of passage formerly part of this house. Facade of 2 storeys in 5 bays. Entrance to passage via an open-pedimented timber archway supported on engaged Ionic columns. 4 sash windows to left with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, 3 similar windows to first floor and, over the entrance, a wide Venetian window of mid C19 vintage. Wide timber modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof. Tall internal gable end stacks. To rear is a 2-storey, 4-bay, early C18 red brick range. Moulded platband between floors. 3 sashes and a door to ground floor and 4 sashes to first floor. Door is to left, the sashes late C18 replacements, with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Gabled roof. 3 gabled dormers with casements. Rear of street range with one similar sash to ground floor and 2 above. New range abutting to west. INTERIOR. Very fine early C18 open string staircase to left of entrance doorway. 3 barley-sugar balusters per tread, the tread-ends carved. Ramped moulded handrail runs between square newel stops, the stops supported by a cluster of 4 similar balusters. Ramped, but plain, dado panelling to match.

Listing NGR: TF6162320069

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
384137
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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