NHER 34286 (Building record) - 1 to 3 Purfleet Place

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Summary

A terrace of three three-storey brown brick houses dating from 1840, with a slate roof that is staggered owing to a fall in ground level.

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TF61NW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

December 1951. Listed Grade II*.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Terrace of 3 houses. c.1825. Brown brick with slate roofs. Three storeys. Staggered roof line owing to drop in ground. Nos 1 and 2 occupy east part. Four bays with two panelled doors (in bays 1 and 4) below three-vaned fanlights. Sash windows with glazing bars and finely gauged skewback arches. Over first floor is stucco platband decorated with alternating acanthus and palmette leaves. Moulded timber eaves cornice below gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to left (east) and ridge stack at division of properties. No. 3 to west has two wide bays with a third bay containing door to left of elevation: two top panels are glazed, fanlight blocked. Remainder of details similar. Internal gable-end stack to west."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
See also (S2).
E. Rose (NLA), 10 March 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 11 April 2023.

It is noted in (S3) that the widening of the Purfleet Bridge (NHER 46575) in 1806 saw the clearance of buildings to the south of the bridge, removing the northern side of a small east-west street called Wrestlers' Street. In 1809 this widened area was named Purfleet Place. In 1840 James Fysh employed a builder, William Johnson, to rebuild houses he owned there, giving them brown brick façades. These are the three houses now known as 1-3 Purfleet Place.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 21 November 2018.

  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1195413.
  • <S2> Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 488.
  • <S3> Monograph: Higgins, D.. 2008. The Remaking of King's Lynn: Brown Brick and Rounded Corners. p 35.

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Record last edited

Apr 11 2023 11:39PM

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