Westgate House

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

KING'S LYNN

TF6120SE CHAPEL STREET 610-1/7/31 (East side) 01/12/51 No.42 Westgate House

GV II

House, now offices. Early C18 with an early C19 facade. Brown brick with red brick returns. Slate roof, plain tiled to rear wing. 2-storey asymmetrical facade. Central panelled door within panelled reveals and below a 4-vaned fanlight. Doorcase of engaged fluted Tuscan columns supporting an open pediment. One wide sash window left and right with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. To extreme left is a pedestrian doorway below a blind first-floor window. 4 horned sashes to remainder of first floor. Modillion timber eaves cornice below gabled roof, which has 2 distinct pitches, the southern higher. Ridge stack at division of pitches, internal south gable-end stack and an added external stack to the north gable. Original gable-line of early C18 house is apparent here, of one storey, probably with a dormer attic To rear on south side is a 2-storey plain tiled block; sash windows with glazing bars; stack on rear roof slope to south.

Listing NGR: TF6184420318

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0272 IOE Records taken by Graham Brown; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Graham Brown. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project