4,6, St Ann's Street

This is a house, possibly originally with a shop, located at 4 and 6 St Ann's Street, King’s Lynn. The building’s earliest elements likely date to the 13th century, though the ground-floor interior is largely 20th century. It is constructed of rendered and colourwashed rubblestone with a pantiled roof. The house represents an unusually early survival of a parallel hall plan in King’s Lynn.

The building is two storeys high. A 20th-century door and shopfront are on the ground floor, and four 20th-century timber casements on the first floor. The roof is gabled, with a slightly higher pitch to the north half. An internal gable-end stack is located on the north side. The rear elevation includes a 20th-century single-storey pantiled outshut with a high-pitched dormer, and three 20th-century roof lights are set into the main roof.

On the right-hand side of the ground floor is a blocked 13th-century stone doorway. This features a double-chamfered pointed arch with a hood mould resting on block imposts; the jambs are too fragmented to analyse.

The interior was not inspected, but as of 1971, the north part of the house (with the higher roofline) contained a scissor-braced roof, while the southern part had a crown post roof.