Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE QUEEN STREET 610-1/9/182 (West side) 01/12/51 No.25

GV II*

House. Mid C18. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roofs. Standard town-house L-plan, the facade to the street. 2 storeys in 3 bays with a panelled door to the right beneath a 6-vaned fanlight set in a gauged round-arched opening. 2 sashes to left and 3 to first floor, all with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Modillion timber eaves cornice and gabled roof. Late C20 chimney to left gable-end. Door opens into passage to rear. Doorway into house situated at end on left (south) side: panelled door within a panelled timber doorcase with pilaster strips and a 4-vaned fanlight. Rear (west) elevation of the front range is rendered to ground floor, on the left the arched entrance to the passage, to the right one round-headed sash with glazing bars and a flush frame. 2 mid-C18 flush-framed sashes above with glazing bars. 2-storey, 3-bay cross wing on south side at right-angles to street. North side lit through two bays of sashes each floor, the west bay blank. West gable with a late C20 outshut to ground floor and 2 mid-C19 sashes to first floor, the frames still with partly exposed boxes so probably replacements. Gabled roof, hipped to west end. Stack interrupts eaves line to south side. INTERIOR. Entrance door leads to staircase hall. Good open string staircase with 2 turned balusters per tread. Tread ends with vegetative scrolls. Ramped moulded handrail. Open well returns to form first-floor gallery to north. Large frame dado panelling and ramped dado rail matching handrail. Principal front ground-floor room with large-framed panelling, cornice and fireplace. Fireplace with tall scrolled consoles supporing upright jambs leading to frieze with carved scrolled leaf-trail decoration.

Listing NGR: TF6165219886

External Links

• Wikidata Q17555253

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