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Latitude: 52.7569 / 52°45'24"N
Longitude: 0.4128 / 0°24'45"E
OS Eastings: 562918
OS Northings: 320430
OS Grid: TF629204
Mapcode National: GBR N3R.36B
Mapcode Global: WHJP1.9YSV
Plus Code: 9F42QC47+Q4
Entry Name: Almshouses (Gaywood Hospital)
Listing Date: 1 December 1951
Last Amended: 26 July 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219806
English Heritage Legacy ID: 384108
ID on this website: 101219806
Location: Highgate, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Norfolk, PE30
County: Norfolk
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Electoral Ward/Division: Gaywood Chase
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: King's Lynn
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Tagged with: Almshouse
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KING'S LYNN
GAYWOOD ROAD (South side)
Almshouses (Gaywood Hospital)
(Formerly Listed as: GAYWOOD ROAD (South side) Nos.1-8 (Consecutive)
Almshouses)
01/12/51
GV
II
Eight almshouses built around courtyard. C13 origins, destroyed in Siege of Lynn 1643, rebuilt 1649, restored 1904, restored and modernised 1965.
Brick. Plaintile roofs. One storey. North side is entrance. Gable ends of east and west wings close facade with Dutch gables. Gabled entrance with double-leaf timber studded door. Datestone in gable commemorates rebuilding 1649 following fire. Three three-light casement windows, the one immediately right of entrance with double
sunk-quadrant mouldings. Short passage leads to courtyard. Plank doors to interiors, all with dog-gates and all under gabled hoods on brackets. Casements mainly C18, but five retains a two-light sunk-quadrant moulded window. Two ridge stacks to north and south wings, one to others. North-east stack with stone sundial slab dated 1738. In centre of court is a cast-iron hexagonal water pump.
INTERIOR. Little visible. Large arched braces to collars date from 1904.
Listing NGR: TF6291820430
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