NHER 12908 (Building record) - Purfleet House, 1 King Street

June 1972. Listed Grade II.

November 1977. Field Observation.
Nos 1-9 (odd) King Street visited by E. Rose (NAU).
Georgian, good condition, red brick, Classical doorcase, hipped roof.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 2 November 1977. Information from record card (S1).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

The side wall of this building is pre-Georgian. On Bell's 17th-century print it appears as stone. The windows have since been altered and replaced by Georgian sashes but the positions of the originals can be made out. The bricks between them are covered in rough scratchings, probably to hold plaster so as to make the brickwork appear as stone.
E. Rose (NLA) and E.M. James, 20 November 1998. Information from file notes (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

1993 revised Listing (S3) notes that this house was built for Sir John Turner around 1670 and refaced in around 1750. The Purfleet Quay return is given as early 18th century but see above.
Information from (S3).
Compiled by E. Rose (NLA). Information from file notes (S2).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

See also (S4) and (S5).
A. Cattermole (HES), 5 August 2011.

For details of other buildings formerly recorded under this number, see NHERs 55894-55898.
A. Cattermole (HES), 5 August 2011.

Excerpt of current Listing Description:
"House, partly used as offices. Built c.1670 for Sir John Turner, facade of c.1750, Purfleet Quay return early 18th century, interior probably older. Red brick with plaintile roof. Two storeys in three bays. Panelled door with panelled reveals to right, behind open-pedimented doorcase on Ionic engaged columns, beside which there is a wrought-iron lantern bracket...Dentil timber cornice below plain parapet. Hipped roof. Purfleet Quay front (south): Two storeys. Plinth course with ashlar coping. West extent of original build defined by rusticated quoins...Platband between floors and a double brick string course below the parapet. Parapet continues into single-bay extension to west and into north return...A further two-storey, but lower, late 18th-century extension abuts to west...Hipped slate roof."
Information from (S3).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S3) for the full listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

June-August 2018. Building Survey and Laser Scanning Survey.
Record made of cellars beneath 1 King Street, ahead a proposed redevelopment that would see the conversion of this building and the erection of three new dwellings in the rear yard. A laser scanning survey was undertaken, which was supplemented by additional recording. The cellars comprise two distinct sections, with a square brick rib-vaulted chamber beneath 1 King Street and a much larger (and presumably more recent) barrel-vaulted cellar extending to the western, beneath the rear yard. The roof of the latter was encountered during the excavation of foundation trenches for the new buildings (see NHER 68107).
See report (S6) for further details, including photographs of the cellars and plans and elevations generated from the digital survey data.
P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2024.