30,32, PILOT STREET

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE PILOT STREET 610-1/7/167 (East side) 01/12/51 Nos.30 AND 32

GV II*

House, divided into 2. Rare parallel hall house of early C15, remodelled late C15 or early C16 and altered since. Timber-framed with colourwashed brick infill. Pantiled roofs. Facade of 2 storeys with central entrance passage leading to private quarters and rear yard. Door to right of passage (Bardell's Yard) and a C20 casement right of that. To left of passage a renewed 4-light mullioned and transomed window. Entrance to No.32 in passage. First floor jettied to front and rear with knuckle braces under exposed studs. 4 arched braces between studs. One sash window to No.32, two casements to No.30. Gabled roof with rebuilt ridge stack at present division of properties. North return has ashlar quoins at first floor. Timber-framing continues in passage. To rear of No.30 is a single-storey late C15 range obscuring original jetty. This has a blocked arched doorway and, further east, 2 lights of a blocked 3-light hollow chamfered stone mullioned window. No.32 has a 2-storey late C15 rear range added, encased in brick, but still jettied. C20 details. Various C19 and C20 extensions further east. INTERIOR. No.30: Ground floor front room with a bridging beam on arched braces. C20 studs in north wall. Rear room (in late C15 extension) has early C15 studs to west wall and braces to former jetty. West wall with blocked openings corresponding to those in passage. First floor shows ties on arched braces, but roof not accessible. No.32: Rear block has original jetty intact, the braces replaced. Plain crown post roof, the posts of rectangular section, with arched braced to crown purlins (some missing). Arched braces drop from posts to tie beams, and the ties have arched braces to principal studs. Collars. This roof said to continue into No.30, as is likely.

Listing NGR: TF6192420482