NHER 12011 (Building) - 2 Nelson Street, former Valiant Sailor public house

Originally one house. 15th century. Timber framed with overhanging upper storey, brick infilling on ground floor, and rendered. Curved angle post with carved panel behind. No. 2 now has a 19th century public house façade to Priory Lane.
Information from original List Entry from 1951 and from (S1).

1993.
(S2) upgrades to II* and redates to 1540 to 1560 as the building stands on the site of outbuildings belonging to the dissolved priory of St Margaret. Very detailed description given of the complete and extensive timber frame with dragon beam, carved panel, shop arcade etc.
E. Rose (NLA) 16 February 1999, amended A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 13 June 2019.

This building was The Valiant Sailor public house in the 19th century. Numerous attempts were made by the Paving Commissioners from 1806 onwards to demolish part of this property in order to allow Lath Street (as Nelson Street was then known) to be widened. The Commissioners' difficulties in achieving this appear to have resulted from the fact that it was owned by the Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral, as part of the former priory estate. The Commissioners made several approaches to the Dean and Chapter between 1806 and 1817 but permission to demolish was clearly not granted. See (S3) for further details.
According to (S4) the building may have been a public house from the late 1600s onwards and it first appears in the sessions minutes in 1728. The building was offered for sale by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from around 1869 and was purchased by Thomas Edward Bagge in 1885. It ceased being a public house in 1925. See (S4) for further details.
This property was once home to the notable British artist Walter Dexter (1876-1958), as noted by a plaque attached to the façade of the building.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 13 June 2019.

This timber-framed, jettied building provides access to No. 4 to the south via a panelled door. Nos. 4 and 6 are now recorded separately under NHER 62827.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 13 June 2019.