Ladybridge House

Ladybridge House is an early 18th-century house located on Nelson Street, King's Lynn, with alterations and features from the mid- and late-18th century. It is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings, and has machine tile roofs. The facade is of two storeys and a dormer attic, with four bays. A panelled door is located on the right side, set within panelled reveals, and has a timber doorcase featuring engaged fluted Roman Doric columns supporting an open pediment above a metope frieze. Three sash windows with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches are present on the ground floor, and four similar windows on the first floor. An ovolo modillion eaves cornice sits below the gabled roof, which includes a central dormer with a sash window and glazed side panels. The roof is half-hipped to the south.

A passage leads to the garden front, emerging from under a two-bay hipped trellis portico via a half-glazed door within a timber doorcase featuring panelled reveals, reeded and fluted pilasters, block architraves, and an open pediment. A six-vaned fanlight is present above the door. The garden elevation is divided into two distinct sections by varying roof slopes. The west section has a late 18th-century sash window on the ground floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches, and, concealed behind a trellis, a second doorway similar to the passage doorway. To the right of this section is a late 19th-century single-storey canted bay with sash windows and a hipped slate roof. Three sash windows with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches are on the first floor. An ovolo modillion eaves cornice is present, and two gabled dormers are in the gabled roof. A ridge stack is positioned to the left.

The east section lacks bay discipline and includes a simple doorcase with panelled reveals and an open pediment. To the right is a triple sash with glazing bars and a gauged skewback arch, and a single, similar sash at the end of the elevation. The first floor is lit through one double sash with similar details and a single sash to its right. An ovolo modillion eaves cornice and a gabled roof are present, with two gabled dormers. A ridge stack is at the junction of the two parts of the elevation.

At the rear of the east section is an outshut with a catslide roof covered in graded Cumberland slate. This section includes a doorcase with a pediment supported on scrolled consoles. To the left is a late 18th-century sash window with glazing bars in a restored early 18th-century flush frame, and to the right of the doorway is a similar double sash.

The interior features a central south ground-floor room with large-frame masons' mitre panelling from around 1740, and a late 18th-century fireplace with a Vitruvian scroll. A late 18th-century staircase has stick balusters and a ramped and wreathed handrail. A ground floor west room, entered through a panelled door with a blocked fanlight, has reeded surrounds to windows, the door, and a cupboard, as well as a palmette cornice.