Friarscot

Friarscot is a house located on Church Street in King's Lynn, dating back to around 1530, with a facade from the late 17th century. The building was restored in 1989 and features a brick exterior that has been colourwashed. It has a pantile roof and consists of two storeys with a dormer attic, arranged in four bays. Each floor has four two-light cross casements, which appear to be from 1989 but are actually repairs of 17th-century originals. There is a plain doorway situated between the first two ground-floor windows on the left. A damaged platband runs between the floors. The gabled roof includes one sloping dormer and has a south internal gable-end stack, with a second stack on the rear roof slope.

Inside, there is a former fireplace in the south ground-floor room, and both this room and the north room feature roll-moulded 16th-century joists, while the rolled steel joists are from the 20th century. The rear stack is a late 16th-century or early 17th-century addition, located on the first floor and covering a chamfer-mullioned timber window, of which three lights are still visible. The north gable also has a mullioned window that is now blocked. The roof above the collar level has been removed and replaced, and there is a winder staircase in the north-west corner, which is not in its original position.