Bank House
BANK HOUSE, KING'S STAITHE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220654
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HOUSE, KING'S STAITHE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220654
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bank House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HOUSE, KING'S STAITHE SQUARE
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:
- BANK HOUSE, KING'S STAITHE SQUARE
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 61604 19948
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6119NE KING'S STAITHE SQUARE 610-1/9/112 (South side) 01/12/51 Bank House
GV II*
House, then hotel, now offices. Early C18. Shown on Rastrick's 1725 plan but Bell shows clear site c1680. North facade re-worked early C19 with 2 full-height canted window bays. Red brick with plain tiled roofs. North front of 2 storeys and dormer attic Central panelled door within stuccoed Gibbsian rusticated surround. One sash above with glazing bars and gauged skewback arch. Canted window bays to either side are pierced by 3 similar sashes to each floor and terminate in a timber modillion eaves cornice. Gabled roof carrying 2 hipped dormers with sashes between which is a tall stuccoed niche on scrolled consoles. Niche is framed by pilaster strips and a round arch and surmounted by a broken swan-necked pediment. In niche is a statue of Charles I, resited 1685 from former Custom House (qv) of 1630. Internal gable end stack to east and a compound stack to west gable is shared by the 3-storey wing returning north. This wing is illuminated through sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches and is an early C19 front. Parapet conceals 2 hipped roofs. West elevation has large patches of English bond brickwork, is in 3 storeys and presents 4 hipped roofs to view. Windows are predominately sashes with glazing bars and exposed boxes. One stack left of centre and another immediately behind. INTERIOR. Very extensive brick cellars are barrel-vaulted. They are entered from north-east room under a heavy bressumer. This room with large but plain bridging beams. Ground floor east room with large-frame C18 panelling and a shouldered and eared picture frame in the overmantel. Reeded strips separate sashes in the window bay. Ceiling in large geometric panels. The room immediately above has similar panelling. Early C19 staircase: open string, stick balusters, ramped and wreathed handrail. Captain Samuel Gurney Cresswell, the Arctic Explorer, was born here (1827-1867). The house was built on the former site of the C16 Port Tollbooth.
Listing NGR: TF6160419948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384183
- 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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