15,17, NELSON STREET
15,17, NELSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17, NELSON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15,17, NELSON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1221095
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17, NELSON STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15,17, NELSON 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:
- 15,17, NELSON 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 61776 19686
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6119NE NELSON STREET 610-1/9/146 (West side) 01/12/51 Nos.15 AND 17 (Formerly Listed as: NELSON STREET (West side) No.15) (Formerly Listed as: NELSON STREET (West side) No.17)
GV II*
House. Possibly C17, re-fronted c1740 for the Browne family of merchants; later alterations. Occupied by Health Authority until 1989. Brown brick. Plain tiled roof. East front of 3 storeys in 6 bays defined by rusticated stone quoins rising to cornice and parapet. Entrance off-set to right: engaged Tuscan columns support pediment above plain frieze. Panelled door below 5-vaned fanlight is set within a round arch. Sash windows with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Returns have blind windows and express the chimneybreasts which emerge at the apices of the gabled roof. Attached to south is the single-storey No.17, part of the premises since C19. Two sashes with glazing bars to left of a timber doorcase supporting a pediment on keystones and a pair of consoles. Parapet and plain tiled roof. 2 sashes to the top floor of the north side are mid C18, with glazing bars. INTERIOR. Door leads into barrel-vaulted passage with one groined bay. Staircase hall to left containing open well staircase of wrought-iron balusters and ramped and wreathed timber handrail. Pedimented ornamental picture surround to north wall and geometric plaster ceiling of large forms. The top floor east rooms have re-used small-frame C17 panelling. Main ground-floor south room with very large-framed panelling, modillion plaster cornice and mahogany doors. Principal first floor rooms similar. Roof of rear wing of purlin and rafter type, the common rafters all cut and replaced in C20. Roof of front range not accessible.
Listing NGR: TF6177619686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384214
- 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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