NHER 62810 (Building) - Former Highland Laddie public house, Southgates Corner, Wisbech Road

(S1) describes this as an oddly-shaped and fenestrated building, used as a public house during the second half of the 19th century but perhaps originally part of something larger. Shop-front projecting outwards towards the pavement. Alterations in the 1940s to the western lean-to. Surviving low walls from a demolished building formerly attached to it on the west include stone. The building is of painted brick, thoguh rendered on the south façade. The bond is variable, suggesting several phases of construction. The shallow-pitched roof is of pantiles, though early photographs show a slate roof.
The very low-pitched, hipped roof suggests an early 19th century date. There is a possibility that this building is in some altered form part of a building visible at this location on the Tithe map and so likely to be of 18th century date. It makes more sense as a converted fragment of a larger whole rather than a purpose-built house or inn. See (S1) for further information.
(S2) states that the Highland Laddie was first found in the Register of Public Houses in 1850 and that its address was given as 2 Chapel Street in 1891. It was referred for compensation in 1909 and its licence revoked in 1910, when it appears to have been converted to a private house.
Photographs from the 1970s show this as the Southgates Laundrette.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 2 July 2019.