12-20, PRIORY LANE
12-20, PRIORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195412
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 12-20, PRIORY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 12-20, PRIORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195412
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 12-20, PRIORY LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-20, PRIORY LANE
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:
- 12-20, PRIORY LANE
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 61779 19758
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6119NE PRIORY LANE 610-1/9/171 (North side) 01/12/51 Nos.12-20 (Consecutive)
GV II*
Monastic range belonging to the Benedictine Priory of St Margaret. C14, but main work C15 possibly associated with accounts of a new hall 1445-48. Altered C18, restored and divided into 6 dwellings 1974-5. Brick, ashlar and carstone. Plain tiled roof. 2 storeys. To right of elevation is a rebuilt stone arch to rear with hollow and wave mouldings. Fenestration somewhat irregulaly disposed and mostly renewed cross casements. One to east end at first floor is set within a 4-centred recess. Hall firestack corbelled out at first-floor level to right of archway with, to its right, a trefoil cusped 2-light window. 3 other stone single-light windows evident elsewhere. Under hall stack is a blocked timber doorway. 7 other blocked doorways at intervals. Gabled roof with 8 stacks on or just off ridge line. To west end is a lower, hipped, 2-storey pantiled attachment of late C17. One window to each floor with glazing bars. Single-storey extension has a door and a lap-glazed window to its right. Rear (north) elevation. Archway becomes more depressed than 4-centred. One C17 door to its right with an overlight. Various renewed or restored ashlar lancets. No.18 has a large depressed arch to ground floor, filled with a window and a door. Above are two 4-centred recesses. First floor of No.17 has two 2-light cusped windows to former hall with a single cusped window to their right. No.19 with one 2-light and one 4-light transomed window with chamfered stone mullions. INTERIOR. Only partly inspected. First-floor hall plan is probably an alteration to original open hall arrangement. Fireplaces all large and open, not earlier than C16. At east end the internal ground-floor fireplace bressumer has incised graffiti of a Latin cross. Whole range originally with a crown post roof. At east end this is of a square section crown posts with tension braces dropping from post to tie beam. From centre of tie beam, close to foot of crown posts, intersecting arched braces rise to principal rafters, which are not enlarged as such. Crown braces to collar purlin only. Date of c1445 probably accurate.
Listing NGR: TF6177919758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384238
- 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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