Bishop's Lynn House
BISHOP'S LYNN HOUSE, 18, TUESDAY MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289527
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's Lynn House
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP'S LYNN HOUSE, 18, TUESDAY MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1289527
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's Lynn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP'S LYNN HOUSE, 18, TUESDAY MARKET PLACE
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:
- BISHOP'S LYNN HOUSE, 18, TUESDAY MARKET PLACE
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 61648 20361
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6120SE TUESDAY MARKET PLACE 610-1/7/267 (West side) 01/12/51 No.18 Bishop's Lynn House
GV II*
House, now offices. Late C14 or C15 cellars. Original house divided into 2 properties in late C16, purchased 1725 by the merchant William Bagge, who immediately re-fronted the south half of facade. House converted into one property c1760, northern half rebuilt for Thomas Bagge 1803-4 probably by S Newham & Son. Rear wing demolished 1975. Red and brown brick. Slate roof. South half of east front of 3 storeys in 5 bays. Central panelled door in brick doorcase with Tuscan pilasters and metope frieze below pediment. Recessed sashes with concealed boxes are replacements, possibly of 1803: glazing bars, gauged skewback arches and brick aprons. Heavy cornice below attic storey. Parapet conceals gabled roof.Internal south gable-end stack. North part of 1803-4 in brown brick. 3 storeys in 4 bays, 3 bays of which make up a full height bow to north. Sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. No doorway. Parapet. Internal gable-end north stack. INTERIOR. Fittings c1725-30. Passage leads from door to staircase hall, the passage with large-framed panelling terminating in a panelled door below a 6-vaned fanlight. Kentian chimneypiece in west wall with central mask in frieze flanked by acorn and leaf swags. Open string staircase with 3 bobbin and turned balusters to each tread. Wide moulded ramped and wreathed handrail returns to balcony at north end. Various blocked windows on north side indicate that former rear wing was a later addition. Cellar runs under north part of house parallel to Page Stair Lane. Rectangular with 2 octagonal brick piers each supporting 8 chamfered ribs arching to wall piers on polygonal bases. Wall arches are 4-centred. Eastern half has later brick partitions obscuring the plan. C18 steps lead up to Page Stair Lane and a door.
Listing NGR: TF6164820361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384344
- 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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