Trader Building
TRADER BUILDING, 21, TOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212185
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Trader Building
- Statutory Address:
- TRADER BUILDING, 21, TOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212185
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Trader Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRADER BUILDING, 21, TOWER 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:
- TRADER BUILDING, 21, TOWER 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:
- TF6194119906
Details
TF6119NE
610-1/9/255
KING'S LYNN
TOWER STREET (East side)
No.21
Trader Building
28/01/83
II
House and possibly shop, now shop and offices. Late C15, restored and altered 1983. Timber-framed with brick. Slate roof. 2 storeys. Brick ground floor rebuilt 1980s. Glazed display front of this date. Kneelers support bressumer of jetty over exposed joists. Close-studded upper floor with 2 arched braces and cement render infilll. In centre a 4-light timber mullioned window with king mullion. Gabled roof. Blocked and truncated internal gable-end stack to south.
INTERIOR. Large chamfered bridging beam runs north-south with mortices for arched braces. Mortice at north end indicated north wall is relocated south. Late C20 partitioning and details. Roof of 3 tie beams carrying rectangular section crown posts, the outer pair with straight braces to ties. Crown purlin arch-braced to the same pair. Collars and 2 tiers butt purlins, the upper tier renewed. 2 niches in south wall and a fireplace.
Listing NGR: TF6194119906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384332
- 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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