15,16, Tuesday Market Place

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE TUESDAY MARKET PLACE 610-1/7/265 (North side) 01/12/51 Nos.15 AND 16

GV II*

Range of houses. Early C16, of convoluted plan of ad hoc evolution in 2 distinct but irregular ranges. Unified c1720 by addition of facade. Altered and added to repeatedly since, the interior dispositions further confused by splitting into present offices. Brick. Plain tiled roof to front, slate to rear and concrete corrugated tiles elsewhere. Fine facade of 2 storeys and dormer attic in 9 bays. Plinth course. Blocked central door in shouldered doorcase with keyblocks. Consoles support open segmental pediment. 2 bays right and left are inserted panelled doors with glazed overlights. Fenestration of late C18 sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. 3 sashes to left at ground floor have lost glazing bars to lower sashes. First-floor windows with rubbed brick aprons on guttae corbels. Moulded brick string course below panelled parapet. Gabled roof with 3 dormers. Internal gable-end stacks, with 2 more on rear roof slope showing prominently in central position. Rear elevations consist of a 2-storey hipped block running north and a 2-storey gabled cross wing running east from this, flush at the north return and parallel with front range. Narrow courtyard so formed filled by later additions. North gable end of hipped wing lit through a 5-light early C17 casement at ground floor with a blocked 2-light square section mullioned window immediately left. Above is a late C18 sash with glazing bars in early C18 boxes. Hipped roof with a C20 flush dormer. 2 ridge stacks. East-west gabled range lit through a late C19 sash to ground floor in exposed box. Above is a blocked 4-light ovolo moulded casement, and next left a 6-light timber mullioned window with square section mullions to exterior but hollow chamfered to interior. Ridge stack. West gable with sashes to each floor in reduced openings below ovolo-moulded brick pediments. INTERIOR. Stick baluster staircase to west end of front range with 2 balusters to each tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail, all renewed C20. East end with an open string staircase of c1730 rising full height: 2 entactic circular balusters on bobbin bases to each tread. Ramped and wreathed handrail with circular newels in form of unfluted Corinthian columns. Rear parallel wing with roll-moulded bridging beams to ground floor. 6-light mullioned window previously described looks into a room through 2 storeys. 2 hollow and roll-moulded bridging beams with jewel stops supported on similarly moulded arched braces dropping on wall posts to corbels. Timber-framed west wall with a reduced 4-centred brick fireplace.

Listing NGR: TF6168120388