79, LONDON ROAD
79, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290764
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 79, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 79, LONDON ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290764
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 79, LONDON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 79, LONDON ROAD
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:
- 79, LONDON ROAD
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 62247 19333
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6219SW LONDON ROAD 610-1/11/124 (West side) 07/06/72 No.79
GV II
House, now Guest house. c1840 (shown on map of 1846 but not on one of 1830). Brown brick with slate roofs. Stucco dressings. 3 storeys. Presents east facade to London Road, south (entrance) front to South Everard Street. East front in 2 bays. Ground floor with rusticated corner and centre pieces separating 2 sashes with glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. First floor similar except rusticated elements replaced by thin paired Tuscan pilasters and the sashes become French windows under hoods. Decorated iron balcony rails. Cornice over this floor. Top floor with plain corner and centre pieces separating the smaller sashes. Glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Parapet below hipped roof. South front has a main block to east in 3 bays, and a 2-storey west block also in 3 bays. Main block entered through double-leaf doors set within doorcase comprising a pair of stucco Tuscan pilasters with 2 columns in antis, of same order. Simple hood. Windows are sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. 2 upper window bays to west are blind. Stucco string courses at first and second floors, the former extending into the west block. Ground floor of this of three 4-centred wall arches, the eastern 2 with blind windows, the other with a sash as before. 2 first-floor sashes separated by a blind window to first floor. Hipped roof.
Listing NGR: TF6224719333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384195
- 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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