25, Queen Street

This is a mid-18th century town house located on Queen Street, King’s Lynn. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings, and has plain tiled roofs. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with the front facade facing the street. The street facade is three bays wide, featuring a panelled front door to the right, positioned beneath a six-paned fanlight within a gauged round-arched opening. There are two sash windows on the left-hand side of the ground floor and three above them on the first floor. All windows have glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. A timber eaves cornice with modillions runs along the top of the front elevation, and the roof is gabled. A late 20th-century chimney is located on the left gable end.

Entering through the front door leads to a passage towards the rear of the property. A secondary doorway, located at the end of the house on the left (south) side, features a panelled door within a panelled timber doorcase with pilaster strips and a four-paned fanlight. The rear (west) elevation of the front range is rendered to ground floor level. A rounded entrance to the passage is visible on the left, with a round-headed sash window with glazing bars and a flush frame to the right. Above this, there are two mid-18th century flush-framed sashes with glazing bars.

A two-storey, three-bay cross wing projects from the south side at a right angle to the street. The north side of the cross wing has two bays of sashes on each floor, with one bay blank. The west gable incorporates a late 20th-century outshut at ground floor level and two mid-19th century sash windows to the first floor, the frames of which appear to be replacements, with partially exposed boxes. The gabled roof is hipped to the west end, and a stack interrupts the eaves line to the south side.

Inside, the entrance door opens into a staircase hall. A good quality open string staircase is present, with two turned balusters per tread, culminating in vegetative scroll details. The handrail is ramped and moulded, and an open well returns to form a first-floor gallery to the north. Large-framed dado panelling and a matching ramped dado rail are also visible. A principal front ground-floor room has large-framed panelling, a decorative cornice, and a fireplace with tall scrolled consoles supporting upright jambs and a frieze carved with a scrolled leaf trail.