56A, High Street

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE HIGH STREET 610-1/7/58 (East side) 01/12/51 No.56A (Formerly Listed as: NORFOLK STREET (North side) No.147)

GV II

Shop, originally with domestic accommodation to lost rear wing and upper floors. C16, altered many times, repaired 1969. Timber-framed with brick, rendered and colourwashed. Plain tiled roof.3 storeys and attic Gable-end to street with C20 shopfront to ground floor. First floor with a 6-light C19 transomed display window in 2 groups of three 4-centred lights. Jetty above reduced in depth 1969 when entire front wall rebuilt above this point. 2 casements to second floor and an attic casement above. Gabled roof. Rear is pebbledashed and supported by permanent steel external frame. INTERIOR. One boxed bridging beam to ground floor. Winder staircase formerly situated in north-west corner and survives only at attic level. No features at first floor. Second floor with one chamfered bridging beam. Studwork to facade is of 1969. Roof of 1969 copying a clasped purlin type. Some fragments of original timber-frame detectable.

Listing NGR: TF6175320201