NHER 47044 (Building record) - Belgrave Hotel, 14 Blackfriars Road

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Summary

A three-storey brown and red brick house (now hotel) with a slate roof built in 1852 by William Salmon Rolin for himself. It has an elaborate first floor cast iron balcony behind which are French windows. This forms part of St John's Terrace along with Nos. 3 to 13 (NHER 9373).

Protected Status/Designation

Location

Map sheet TF62SW
Civil Parish KING’S LYNN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

June 1972. Listed, Grade II.
Hotel. About 1850. Brown brick with red brick dressings. Slate roofs. Three storeys. L-Plan, the short leg of two bays, the longer of three bays. Entrance in internal angle of the short leg: half-glazed door in simple timber case set within an equally simple internal porch. Two sashes left and one right, in different wall planes, all with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Elaborate bowed cast-iron balcony at first floor carried on two cast-iron brackets. Behind are French doors. Smaller sashes to top floor, similar. Hipped roofs. Stack on west slope and another on wall-plane of east hip.
Information from (S1).
See also (S2).
P. Aldridge (NLA), 11 September 2006.

April 1976. Site visit.
Good Georgian terrace, this house (No. 14) facetted. Brown brick with red brick divisions between houses.
E. Rose (NAU), 7 April 1976.

Mapping modified. Formerly mapped in error at TF 62232 20147 based on (S1). This building forms part of St John's Terrace along with Nos. 3 to 13 (NHER 9373).
(S3) notes that this property was built by William Salmon Rolin in 1852 for himself to live in.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 7 December 2018.

  • <S1> Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1291453.
  • <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 106.

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Record last edited

Dec 7 2018 11:36AM

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