1, King Street

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE KING STREET 610-1/7/65 (West side) 07/06/72 No.1

GV II

House, partly used as offices. Built c1670 for Sir John Turner, facade of c1750, Purfleet Quay return early C18, interior probably older. Red brick with plaintile roof. 2 storeys in 3 bays. Panelled door with panelled reveals to right, behind open-pedimented doorcase on Ionic engaged columns, beside which there is a wrought-iron lantern bracket. 2 sashes to left with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches in light red brick. 3 similar to first floor. Dentil timber cornice below plain parapet. Hipped roof. Purfleet Quay front (south). 2 storeys. Plinth course with ashlar coping. West extent of original build defined by rusticated quoins, immediately to the right of which are 2 sash windows each floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Platband between floors and a double brick string course below the parapet. Parapet continues into single-bay extension to west and into north return. Extension has one sash each floor to south with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. A further 2-storey, but lower, late C18 extension abuts to west: one sash each floor with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Hipped slate roof. (Engravings: Bell: 1685-).

Listing NGR: TF6162320059