15,16, Tuesday Market Place

A range of houses located on Tuesday Market Place, King's Lynn, dates from the early 16th century, demonstrating a complex and evolving plan with two distinct, irregular ranges. Around 1720, the two ranges were unified by the addition of a new facade. The building has undergone repeated alterations and additions since, and the interior layout is further complicated by its division into offices.

The building is constructed of brick, with plain tiled roofing to the front, slate to the rear, and concrete corrugated tiles elsewhere. The facade is of two storeys and a dormer attic, arranged in nine bays. A plinth runs along the base, and a blocked central door is set within a shouldered doorcase featuring keyblocks and consoles supporting an open segmental pediment. Two bays to the right and left contain panelled doors with glazed overlights. The fenestration is dominated by late 18th century sash windows with glazing bars, each set beneath a gauged skewback arch. Some ground-floor windows on the left have lost the glazing bars to the lower sashes. First-floor windows have rubbed brick aprons resting on guttae corbels, and a moulded brick string course precedes a panelled parapet. A gabled roof is topped with three dormers.

Internal gable-end stacks are visible, with two further stacks positioned prominently on the rear roof slope. The rear elevations comprise a two-storey hipped block running north and a two-storey gabled cross wing running east, flush at the north return and parallel with the front range. A narrow courtyard is formed, filled with later additions. The north gable end of the hipped wing contains a five-light early 17th century casement window at ground floor, alongside a blocked two-light square section mullioned window. An 18th-century sash window is placed above.

The east-west gabled range features a late 19th-century sash window on the ground floor and a blocked four-light ovolo moulded casement above. Adjacent to it is a six-light timber mullioned window, with square section mullions on the exterior but a hollow chamfered profile on the interior. A ridge stack is present. The west gable has sashes to both floors, set within reduced openings and framed by ovolo-moulded brick pediments.

The interior includes a stick baluster staircase at the west end, with renewed 20th-century features. An open string staircase of about 1730 rises through the full height, featuring entactic circular balusters on bobbin bases to each tread, a ramped and wreathed handrail, and newels in the form of unfluted Corinthian columns. A roll-moulded bridging beams are visible on the ground floor of the rear parallel wing. A six-light mullioned window, previously described, looks into a room over two storeys. This room features roll-moulded bridging beams supported on arched braces and jewelled stops. A timber-framed west wall incorporates a reduced four-centred brick fireplace.