17, LITTLEPORT STREET
17, LITTLEPORT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220738
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 17, LITTLEPORT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 17, LITTLEPORT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220738
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 17, LITTLEPORT STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17, LITTLEPORT 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:
- 17, LITTLEPORT 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 62318 20378
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6220SW LITTLEPORT STREET 610-1/8/116 (North side) 07/06/72 No.17
GV II
Formerly known as: Eastgate House LITTLEPORT STREET. House, now residential home for the elderly. Early C18, altered c1860 by reduction in length of facade, addition of east wing and rear. Brick. Roofs of machine tiles (main front block), pantiles (west block), slate (rear wing). 5-bay facade, reduced to 4 in C19. Original centre bay broken forward. 2 storeys and dormer attic In former centre bay is a mid C19 gault-brick gabled porch with side lights. Sashes are early C19 to ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, mid C19 to first floor, also with gauged skewback arches. Platband between floors. Hipped roof. East return shows 2 bays of blind windows of C18, then follows a 2-storey, 4-bay C19 extension. Rear wing also C19 with a large tripartite window to ground floor under a gauged skewback arch, 2 sashes to first floor and an iron balcony. Hipped roof. INTERIOR. Details are early C19. Behind C19 porch is original doorway, now without doors. Pair of unfluted Ionic columns right and left with Ionic pilaster strips at right angles to them. 7-vaned fanlight. This leads to staircase hall which retains portions of stud cornice. Staircase is open string, stick balusters, ramped and wreathed handrail. Principal ground-floor room is to east, entered from hall through a curved panelled door. Former saloon, with apsed ends.
Listing NGR: TF6231820378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384187
- 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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