15,17, NELSON STREET

KING'S LYNN

TF6119NE NELSON STREET 610-1/9/146 (West side) 01/12/51 Nos.15 AND 17 (Formerly Listed as: NELSON STREET (West side) No.15) (Formerly Listed as: NELSON STREET (West side) No.17)

GV II*

House. Possibly C17, re-fronted c1740 for the Browne family of merchants; later alterations. Occupied by Health Authority until 1989. Brown brick. Plain tiled roof. East front of 3 storeys in 6 bays defined by rusticated stone quoins rising to cornice and parapet. Entrance off-set to right: engaged Tuscan columns support pediment above plain frieze. Panelled door below 5-vaned fanlight is set within a round arch. Sash windows with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Returns have blind windows and express the chimneybreasts which emerge at the apices of the gabled roof. Attached to south is the single-storey No.17, part of the premises since C19. Two sashes with glazing bars to left of a timber doorcase supporting a pediment on keystones and a pair of consoles. Parapet and plain tiled roof. 2 sashes to the top floor of the north side are mid C18, with glazing bars. INTERIOR. Door leads into barrel-vaulted passage with one groined bay. Staircase hall to left containing open well staircase of wrought-iron balusters and ramped and wreathed timber handrail. Pedimented ornamental picture surround to north wall and geometric plaster ceiling of large forms. The top floor east rooms have re-used small-frame C17 panelling. Main ground-floor south room with very large-framed panelling, modillion plaster cornice and mahogany doors. Principal first floor rooms similar. Roof of rear wing of purlin and rafter type, the common rafters all cut and replaced in C20. Roof of front range not accessible.

Listing NGR: TF6177619686