Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE PRIORY LANE 610-1/9/171 (North side) 01/12/51 Nos.12-20 (Consecutive)

GV II*

Monastic range belonging to the Benedictine Priory of St Margaret. C14, but main work C15 possibly associated with accounts of a new hall 1445-48. Altered C18, restored and divided into 6 dwellings 1974-5. Brick, ashlar and carstone. Plain tiled roof. 2 storeys. To right of elevation is a rebuilt stone arch to rear with hollow and wave mouldings. Fenestration somewhat irregulaly disposed and mostly renewed cross casements. One to east end at first floor is set within a 4-centred recess. Hall firestack corbelled out at first-floor level to right of archway with, to its right, a trefoil cusped 2-light window. 3 other stone single-light windows evident elsewhere. Under hall stack is a blocked timber doorway. 7 other blocked doorways at intervals. Gabled roof with 8 stacks on or just off ridge line. To west end is a lower, hipped, 2-storey pantiled attachment of late C17. One window to each floor with glazing bars. Single-storey extension has a door and a lap-glazed window to its right. Rear (north) elevation. Archway becomes more depressed than 4-centred. One C17 door to its right with an overlight. Various renewed or restored ashlar lancets. No.18 has a large depressed arch to ground floor, filled with a window and a door. Above are two 4-centred recesses. First floor of No.17 has two 2-light cusped windows to former hall with a single cusped window to their right. No.19 with one 2-light and one 4-light transomed window with chamfered stone mullions. INTERIOR. Only partly inspected. First-floor hall plan is probably an alteration to original open hall arrangement. Fireplaces all large and open, not earlier than C16. At east end the internal ground-floor fireplace bressumer has incised graffiti of a Latin cross. Whole range originally with a crown post roof. At east end this is of a square section crown posts with tension braces dropping from post to tie beam. From centre of tie beam, close to foot of crown posts, intersecting arched braces rise to principal rafters, which are not enlarged as such. Crown braces to collar purlin only. Date of c1445 probably accurate.

Listing NGR: TF6177919758

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