Welcome to the King's Lynn Preservation Trust web site which I hope you will find informative of the role we play in protecting the built heritage of King’s Lynn in Norfolk, England.
Since acheiving our half century in 2008 the Trust has been very busy with a number of new projects. The upgrade of Greenland Fishery which concluded with a landswap with the borough council to improve the side and rear aspects of the property, but most importantly the restoration of the medieval paintings on the first floor which have been painstakingly and expertly transformed by Andrea Kirkham. They are well worth a visit. The property is now fully let.
At Thoresby College the YHA hostel on the south side closed some 2 years ago and again a major project has been to convert the ground floor into a suite of offices and to create five new flats on the first floor, this has been successfully completed, the offices are let and we are seeking tenants for the residential units.
Our first new project for some years, in fact since Clifton House, is the restoration of an early 19th Century house on London road which had fallen into considerable disrepair. Although it was formally in multiple occupation we are creating a new single dwelling and we hope that this work will be finished in early 2012
We recently featured in the national publication of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts, Please click here to view the feature.
What next? The gestation period for new projects is often quite long and so we are actively on the lookout for our next restoration.
David Woodcock
Chairman November 2011
Since acheiving our half century in 2008 the Trust has been very busy with a number of new projects. The upgrade of Greenland Fishery which concluded with a landswap with the borough council to improve the side and rear aspects of the property, but most importantly the restoration of the medieval paintings on the first floor which have been painstakingly and expertly transformed by Andrea Kirkham. They are well worth a visit. The property is now fully let.
At Thoresby College the YHA hostel on the south side closed some 2 years ago and again a major project has been to convert the ground floor into a suite of offices and to create five new flats on the first floor, this has been successfully completed, the offices are let and we are seeking tenants for the residential units.
Our first new project for some years, in fact since Clifton House, is the restoration of an early 19th Century house on London road which had fallen into considerable disrepair. Although it was formally in multiple occupation we are creating a new single dwelling and we hope that this work will be finished in early 2012
We recently featured in the national publication of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts, Please click here to view the feature.
What next? The gestation period for new projects is often quite long and so we are actively on the lookout for our next restoration.
David Woodcock
Chairman November 2011
