NHER 63489 (Building) - Parade of shops, Wisbech Road

(S1) describes this as a parade of four single-storey, flat-roofed shops dating from before 1897. The parade appears on the 1883 and 1904 Ordnance Survey maps as one undivided building. On a plan of 1897 they are shown in the ownership of the Gas Company which had its works on the opposite side of the Wisbech Road (NHER 62805) but without any use specified. It is possible that they were used as gas showrooms (these were often near gas works). By the time of the 1927 Ordnance Survey they are shown as four separate buildings. Photographs from the 1960s show them as shops, one a haulier's and the other selling ice cream and cigarettes. The shops are currently boarded up.
The building is brick, rendered on the east wall and east wing. It is an L-shaped structure with a longer arm running east-west along the Wisbech Road. The shopfronts are on the south elevation only. They are very rudimentary single-fronted shops with entirely flat fronts.
See (S1) for further details.
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 2 July 2019.