Description

TL8683
617-1/5/72

THETFORD
KING STREET (South side)
No.51

10/03/71

GV II

C15 shop and hall house, rebuilt late C16, remodelled early C19. Now a shop with domestic accommodation. Timber-framed core, now principally of flint with gault brick dressings under slate roofs. 2 storeys and dormer attic. Gault brick facade. Full-width C20 shop front with central door. Second entrance in east return, also C20. Three 6/6 unhorned sashes to first floor, under gauged skewback arches. Modillion cornice and parapet. Gabled roof with 2 gabled dormers fitted with casements. Rendered and whitewashed rear cross wing with set-off at first floor. Gabled roof with C16 brick ridge stack. Flint and clunch lean-to outbuildings parallel and west of cross wing.
INTERIOR: large inglenook fireplace to ground floor east wall. Rear wing with late C16 bridging beams moulded with sunk quadrants and one subsidiary keeled fillet. Decorated bar stops. First floor with similar bridging beams.

Listing NGR: TL8695183118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502848

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)