Description

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE NELSON STREET 610-1/9/149 (East side) 01/12/51 No.30 Ladybridge House

GV II

House. Early C18 with features of mid and late C18. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Machine tile roofs. Facade of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 4 bays. Panelled door to right set within panelled reveals. Timber doorcase comprising a pair of engaged fluted Roman Doric columns supporting an open pediment above a metope frieze. 3 sash windows to ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. 4 similar first-floor windows. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice below gabled roof. One central gabled dormer with sash and glazed side panels. Roof is half-hipped to south. Door leads to a passage to garden front emerging under a 2-bay hipped trellis portico via a half-glazed door set within a good timber doorcase: panelled reveals; reeded and fluted pilasters below block architraves and open pediment; 6-vaned fanlight. Garden elevation in 2 distinct parts defined by varying roof slope. West section with a late C18 sash to ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Behind trellis is a second doorway similar to the passage doorway. To right of this section is a late C19 single-storey canted bay with sashes and a hipped slate roof. 3 sash windows to first floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice, and 2 gabled dormers in gabled roof. Ridge stack to left. East section lacks bay discipline. Simple doorcase to left with panelled reveals and open pediment. To right is a triple sash with glazing bars and gauged a skewback arch, and a single similar sash right again at the end of the elevation. First floor lit through one double sash with details as before and a single sash to its right. Ovolo modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof. 2 gabled dormers with sashes. Ridge stack at junction of the 2 parts of the elevation. To the rear of the east section is an outshut under a catslide roof with graded Cumberland slate. Doorcase with a pediment supported on scrolled consoles. To the left is a late C18 sash with glazing bars in a restored early C18 flush frame. The double sash to the right of the doorway is similar. INTERIOR. Central south ground-floor room with large-frame masons' mitre panelling of c1740. Late C18 fireplace with Vitruvian scroll. Staircase is late C18: stick balusters and ramped and wreathed handrail. Ground floor west room facing street is entered through a panelled door with a blocked fanlight; it has reeded surrounds to the windows, the door and a cupboard; palmette cornice.

Listing NGR: TF6180419681

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