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HunstantonConservation AreaCharacter Statement

Designated: 13 December 1984Character Statement: October 2009Boundary Changes: 15 December 2009

Hunstanton St Edmund’s is 1 mile south of the village of Hunstanton and forms part of the same parish. It is a rising watering place situated at the southern end of the cliff the terminus of the Lynn and Hunstanton Railway and distant 144 miles from London. The land is owned by Hamon Le Strange, who offers it to the public on building leases for a long term of years, and since the opening of the railway in 1862 a number of good houses, first, second and third class, have been erected... [and] a church has been built in which Divine service is performed, though the building is not completed.

HARROD’S DIRECTORY 1868

The Green before 1914

Contents

1Introduction

1Setting and Location

2Origins and Historical Development

6Character Overview

27Post War Development

28Listed Buildings

29Important Unlisted Buildings

29Traditional Materials

30Archaeological Interest

30Detractors

32Shop Front Guide

33Conservation Objectives

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Hunstanton Conservation Area

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Introduction

A Conservation Area – “An area of specialarchitectural or historic interest, the characterof appearance of which it is desirable topreserve or enhance”.

The conservation of the historic environmentis part of our quality of life, helping to fostereconomic prosperity and providing anattractive environment in which to live orwork. The Borough Council is committed tothe protection and enhancement of WestNorfolk’s historic built environment andsignificant parts of it are designated asconservation areas.

Conservation areas were introduced by the1967 Civic Amenities Act. Local Authoritieswere required to identify areas of specialarchitectural or historic interest, whosecharacter or appearance it is desirable topreserve or enhance, and to designate themas conservation areas. This duty is now partof the 1990 Planning (Listed Buildings &Conservation Areas) Act which also requiresthe review of existing conservation areasand, where appropriate, the designation ofnew ones. The quality and interest of aconservation area depends upon acombination of factors including therelationship and architectural quality ofbuildings, materials, spaces, trees and otherlandscape features, together with views intoand out of the area.

The Hunstanton Conservation Area was firstdesignated in 1984 and its boundaries wereextended in 2009. This document highlightsthe special qualities which underpin thecharacter of the conservation area, justifyingits designation. It also seeks to increaseawareness of those qualities so that wherechanges to the environment occur, they doso in a sympathetic way without harm to the

essential character of the area. This type ofassessment has been encouraged byGovernment Advice and the characterstatement has been adopted by the BoroughCouncil as policy.

This character statement has been producedwith the help of Hunstanton Civic Society.It does not address enhancement proposals.Community led enhancement schemes willbe considered as part of a separate process.

Setting and Location

Hunstanton is situated on the west coast ofNorfolk at the mouth of the Wash.

It is an area of particular geological interest,as may be seen in the cliffs which runsouthwards from St Edmund's Point, justnorth of the town. A bed of white chalk,sloping down to east and south lies over athinner bed of red chalk (Hunstanton redrock) on a foundation of carstone (lowergreensand). The line of the cliffs, exposedonly at Hunstanton, may be seen furthersouth, but now as an inland escarpment, asat Snettisham and Dersingham, leaving thecoast protected only by an artificialembankment; while north-eastwards fromOld Hunstanton, the sea is slowly recedingas sand is deposited along the shore line,leaving the silted-up harbours, salt marshesand great sand dunes which characterisethis stretch of the north Norfolk coast.

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Hunstanton stands at the highest point onthis geological shelf and the land slopesgently downwards to north, east and southgiving the town an exposed and bracingsituation. Its cliff top setting looking west isunlike anywhere else on the east coast ofEngland and the sight of the setting sunlighting up the coloured cliffs is a uniqueexperience.

The built up area of Hunstanton lies on thewest side of the main A149 coast road,which, after running south to north parallelwith the Wash, turns eastwards atHunstanton and then runs parallel with thenorth Norfolk coast. King's Lynn is sixteenmiles to the south and Wells-next-the-Seaseventeen miles to the east. Immediateneighbours are Heacham, three miles to thesouth, and Old Hunstanton barely a mile tothe north. Part of Old Hunstanton lies withinthe parish of (New) Hunstanton and the twosettlements are in fact separated only by thepublic open space at St Edmund's Point.

There is one main north south route throughthe town which turns off the A149 atLighthouse Lane, continues along CliffParade, Le Strange Terrace and SouthendRoad and then rejoins the A149 via OasisWay. Other minor routes through the townlink the A149 to the Promenade on theartificial sea wall which runs southwards fromthe cliffs at the northern end of the town.

Origins and HistoricalDevelopment

Archaeological evidence of the prehistoricsettlement of this part of Norfolk includes theStone Age track, known as the Icknield Way,which passes through Ringstead, the Bronze

Age "Seahenge" discovered atHolme-next-the-Sea and a number of IronAge finds.

Evidence of a Roman settlement in the areacan be seen in the fort at Brancaster, inPeddars Way and in the road patterns ofseveral settlements along the north coast,while other local finds point to the existenceof a small Romano-British settlement in theparish.

By AD 500 there was an Anglo-Saxonsettlement at what is now called OldHunstanton. A cemetery in the grounds ofthe Hall is from this period. The name of thevillage derives from Old English Hunstan'stun, meaning "Hunstan's homestead" or"Hunstan's village" and has changed littleover time. In Domesday Book (1086) it isreferred to as Hunestanestuna. Edmund,King of the East Angles and martyr, is saidto have landed at St Edmund's Point in 855and built a tower hereabouts.

The ruins of a chapel built in his honour in1272 still stands near the Point

Shortly after the Conquest of 1066 the manorof Hunstanton was granted to RalphFitzherluin. His daughter married RolandL'Estrange, who had taken part in the

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Conquest. The manor has remained withthis family ever since and it is due to thevision of a successor, Henry Styleman LeStrange, that the seaside town of Hunstantonwas developed.

In 1840 the only buildings between OldHunstanton and Heacham were a lighthouseand the ruins of St Edmund's Chapel. Theland was used for grazing sheep. But LeStrange saw the potential of this picturesquecoastline with its white, red and brown cliffs,its sandy beach and its bracing climate; hisvision was nothing less than a seaside resortto rival Brighton. He was a man of abundantenergy and wide interests, a devoutChristian, a conscientious landlord and anartist and craftsman. But he was alsofar-sighted and shrewd: he saw that the keyto the development of the new town was arailway connecting Hunstanton to King'sLynn and thence to London and theMidlands. In 1861, as the principallandowner, he became a director of therailway company and by 1862 the line hadbeen built. Hunstanton was ready to take offcommercially. Sadly in the same year LeStrange suffered a heart attack and died atthe age of forty seven, and it was left to hisson Hamon to reap the rewards of his efforts.

As a symbol of his intentions, in 1846 LeStrange had moved the ancient village crossfrom Old Hunstanton to the new site and in1848 the first building was erected.

This was the Royal Hotel (now the GoldenLion), arguably the work of the renownedVictorian architect, William Butterfield, afriend of Le Strange. Overlooking a slopinggreen and the sea, and for several yearsstanding alone, it earned the nickname "LeStrange's Folly". In 1850 Le Strangeappointed a land agent to survey the site andprepare a layout, while he himself drew andpainted a map and a perspective of thescheme, showing shops, a station and achurch.

He did not want a conventional scheme ofstreets laid out on a grid with no openspaces, and turned to William Butterfield forideas.Their shared passion was for the "OldEnglish" style of architecture for domestic

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buildings. This owed much to medievalprecedent and to the earnestness of theVictorian Gothic Revival, but, in its emphasison materials, construction and informality, itlooked forward to the subsequent Arts andCrafts movement. Butterfield laid out thecentral area as a series of triangular greenswith buildings arranged "singly or in groups,in masses of irregular form and size,interspersed with gardens and open spaces.The resort exploited fresh air and the bigskies of this bracing coast. The tough,unapologetic results can be clearly seen,albeit much overlaid with modern accretions.

Development went ahead fast. In 1864,Whites Directory noted that "since thecoming of the railway" Hunstanton "has beenrapidly improving "and that there are now"30 commodious lodgings and boardinghouses, and 3 first class hotels", that "manyvillas, shops and private residences are incourse of erection" and that "a new churchis shortly to be erected near the railwaystation where the chief increase in buildingsand population has taken place". In 1868Harrod's Directory noted that "a gas worksis about to be established and it is incontemplation to erect a pier" and goes onto refer to "pleasure boats and bathingmachines"... "pleasant walks"... "donkeysand ponies for hire". . . "hotels andrefreshment rooms offering excellentaccommodation"... and to the "manythousands of summer visitor brought herefrom different parts of the kingdom by theexcursion and other trains". It lists threeschools, day and boarding, nine shops(including a "fancy emporium"), sixtradesmen (including, not surprisingly, a highproportion in various building trades), a corn,coal, ale and wine merchant, the stationmaster, an omnibus proprietor, a buildingsurveyor, a doctor and the rector.

The developments of the 1870s, northwardsalong Cliff Parade and in Cliff Terrace, werequite different from the earlier scheme byButterfield and comprised a grid of streetswith formal terraces of considerableopulence facing the sea and large greensquares.

In 1883, White's Directory noted the buildingof "whole streets and terraces"; theconstruction of a pier by the Hunstanton CliffCompany, which had also built a promenadeon part of the sea wall; the completion in1870 of the Union Chapel (unusually for thisperiod, for the use of all Nonconformistdenominations) and in 1872 of the Anglicanparish church. Then in 1879 came theopening by the Prince and Princess of Walesof the Convalescent Home, a "fine buildingof carstone with red brick facings and Bathstone cills". Hunstanton was booming.

From 1892 the town was governed by aLocal Board until the establishment of theseparate parish and Urban District Councilof New Hunstanton under the LocalGovernment Act of 1894. In 1896 the fineTown Hall, designed by George Skipper, wasbuilt. It stands, fittingly, next door to theGolden Lion - now no longer isolated but atthe heart of a thriving resort.


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The meteoric rise of Hunstanton and thecontinuing development of residential areasnorth and south of the already establishedcentre were accompanied by an increase inthe facilities available to residents andvisitors. In 1891 the golf links, in 1895 theMethodist Chapel in Austin Street, in 1904The Roman Catholic church in SandringhamRoad, the Recreation Ground and theestablishment of clubs for sports of all kinds.Between 1924 and 1932 came the extensionsouthwards of the sea wall and the creationof a swimming pool, a boating lake, gardensand shelters, in 1937 the bowling greens anda pavilion in the Esplanade Gardens.

Between 1950 and 1954 Smithdon HighSchool was built east of the present A149,to designs by Alison and Peter Smithson.This building, with its innovative steelwork,is listed grade II* though it is outside theconservation area.

In 1969 the closure of the railway line, whichhad been so instrumental in the developmentof the town over the previous century,heralded a new era. The station and theSandringham Hotel south of The Green weredemolished, to be replaced by a shoppingcentre and flats at Harlequin House, whileland to the south, on the line of the formerrailway, was given over to extensive areas

of parking to accommodate the fast growingnumber of visitors arriving by car. At thesame time, the public's increasing preferencefor foreign holidays demanded a responsefrom traditional English seaside resorts.Extensive low-price leisure facilities undercover against the weather seemed to be theanswer: thus the pre-war outdoor familyattractions on South Promenade were, in the1980s, replaced by the present OasisLeisure Centre and the Sea Life Centre,while other seaside attractions were updatedor replaced. The pierhead pavilion wasdestroyed by fire in 1939 and later replacedby the present amusement arcade, while in1978 the pier itself was destroyed in a storm.

Changing public habits and tastes andeconomic changes have caused the numberof boarding houses and hotels to decline anda corresponding growth in the provision ofholiday flats, whether by conversion of olderproperties or building anew. Elsewhere thegrowing number of elderly people in thecommunity has encouraged the conversionof large houses into residential homes. Theemphasis on cost in an ever-changingmarket has meant that many newdevelopments have sacrificed much of thequality associated with the town's Victorianheyday. But some traditions have survivedall the changes. The quality of themaintenance of the Esplanade Gardensshows the tradition of public gardeningbequeathed by the Victorians to be as strongas it has ever been, while the recentlycreated Sensory Garden in Boston Squareis an entirely new and imaginative off-shootof that tradition.

Census figures, for what was still until 1894one parish, reflect the dramatic expansionof the new town. In 1851 and 1861 thepopulation stood at 490. By 1871 it had risento 810 and by 1881 to 1,508. It was not until

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1901 that separate figures for the twoparishes are available. These show that thepopulation of the old village, at 508, wasback to much as it had been in the middleyears of the previous century, while the newtown, now on its own, had jumped to 1,893.In 1928 parts of the parishes of OldHunstanton and Heacham were transferredto New Hunstanton, again making it hard tocompare like with like. In 1931 the populationof the now enlarged area of New Hunstantonstood at 2,627. The estimated figure for theparish in 2007 is 4,716.

So, Hunstanton is a planned seaside town,founded by a remarkable man, HenryStyleman Le Strange, and built on his ownland. It possesses style and character – itsmain buildings are substantial but not overgrand; its squares and open spaces areelegant yet informal. It is a comfortable,modest place, small in architectural scalewith well-defined boundaries. Its characteris spacious, breezy and green, where theeffect of the open sea and sky has a strongimpact on the light, views and settings of thebuildings.

Character Overview

For convenience the Conservation Area canbe divided into five separate areas,according to the dominant character of each.These comprise: The Town Centre, TheCliffs and Squares to the north, EastHunstanton which adjoins the centre, TheAvenues to the north east and SouthHunstanton.

THE TOWN CENTRE

This includes the earliest development inHunstanton dating from the 1860s, much ofit now being the commercial core of the

town. The area includes several importantpublic buildings and a number of openspaces.

The deliberately informal layout was the workof William Butterfield and comprisedbuildings "singly and in groups, in massesof irregular form and size, interspersed withgardens and open spaces". However, theexpansion of the commercial core into areasoriginally designed for residential use hasled to much visual confusion. Or perhapsone could say that those who planned thenew town failed to design sufficiently forshops. The ‘centre’ includes The Green withthe Town Hall, the Golden Lion Hotel andthe flats at Cliff Court, St Edmund's Church,Le Strange Terrace, St Edmund's Terrace,the High Street, most of Greevegate andmost of Westgate.

The Green

Most seaside resorts are laid out parallel tothe coast line. Hunstanton is different. Herethe triangular Green sets the pattern for theearliest development. The major streets rundown to the sea and the lesser streets(including the short High Street) cross alongthe contours of the slope.


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The first building of the new town was to bea hotel overlooking the sea across a largesloping green, and this area remains thenatural hub of the town, linking thecommercial area (centred on the High Street)to the leisure area running parallel to theshore line (northwards in the EsplanadeGardens and southwards along Le StrangeTerrace and South Promenade).The GoldenLion Hotel still dominates the Green,although it now shares pride of place withthe adjoining Town Hall. The medieval crossin front of the hotel remains a focal point inthe space, which has happily retained itsnatural open view, without the interruptionof trees or other features. Red-brown tarmacpaths harmonise with the local materialsused in retaining walls. Traditional cast iron"serpent" seats, a modern bandstand oftraditional form and a hipped roofed toiletblock all make a positive contribution to thescene. Happily, the fountain has beenre-erected on The Green.

At the far north end an imaginativelydesigned curved seating area doubles asthe roof of beach huts below. Regrettably,on the south side, the harsh appearance ofHarlequin House (just outside the

conservation area) detracts with its form,design, colour of brick and unfortunate‘mansard’ style to disguise a flat roof.

On the south east side, facing the sea,number 21 (Cassie's) is a fine Victorianbuilding of carstone with a timber balcony,but the adjoining Green Lodge, has beenspoilt by a flat roofed front extension.

Facing The Green, a three storey carstoneterrace, probably designed by WilliamButterfield, with his favourite mix of hippedand gabled dormers. The concept had beendiluted by a variety of front extensions in abid to maximise the value of this primecommercial site. The use of ribbed concretepantiles in place of the original slate, theremoval of chimneys and inappropriatewindow replacements have down-gradedthe original design. On the end of this terraceand on the corner of St Edmund's Terrace,the Princess Theatre is a strange building,its heavy details and small corner windowslend it an almost "defensive" character.However, the use of carstone helps it blendwith its surroundings and the recent entranceextension, incorporating a glazed roof,seems rather more compatible with anenjoyable evening out.

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On the opposite corner of St Edmund'sTerrace, an opportunity has been missed todevelop the site in a creative way. Instead,a modern building in brick has soughtunsuccessfully to copy features of olderbuildings alongside, even to the extent ofdesigned-in front extensions. The cornerinto Greevegate has another front extension(albeit of some quality in itself), but theappearance is marred by the removal of animportant chimney and the use ofunsympathetic roof tiles.

On the north-east side, The Golden Lionand the Town Hall (both listed buildings) arevery different in style, but they are united inthe materials of which they are built:carstone, limestone and red pintiles. CliffCourt, north of the hotel, with its staggeredplan, boxy forms and flat roofs, intrudes andjars with surrounding older buildings and thelandscaping is disappointing.

Greevegate

(from The Green to Church Street) FromGreevegate there is a fine view looking downhill across The Green to the sea.

The north side of the street begins with thelively and varied side elevation of the TownHall. In front is an attractive small green

space with a tree, followed by a flat roofprotected by barbed wire. Then, on thecorner with Northgate, a modern two storeyshopping development, with a staggeredlayout and assertive flat roofs, bears norelationship with surrounding street lines orroof lines. Its design is poor and it lacksquality. The opposite corner is firmly "held"by the early twentieth century classical styleNat West Bank. St Edmund's Church of 1872(a listed building) is set back behind anattractive small green on the corner withChurch Street.The mix of flint, red chalk andcarstone gives an unexpected liveliness tothe south aisle.Though one was planned byLe Strange, a tower was never built: it wouldhave given the church more of a presencein the town.

On the south side of Greevegate, a shortcarstone terrace with simple gables,originally designed for residential use, is nowall but lost behind a varied collection of shopfronts extended out to the pavement overformer front gardens. This extends to thecorner with the High Street.


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In contrast, on the opposite corner Barclay'sBank of 1872 was clearly designed for itspresent purpose. It turns the corner with anelaborate gable and a fine Gothic styleporch. Elaborate ground floor bay windowson both fronts, cast iron balconies, largeupper windows in stone frames keyed intothe random carstone walling complete thisfine building.The same style is continued upthe street, though here it has beencompromised by an unsympathetic shopfront and the loss of a balcony. From here amodest two storey terrace with first floordormers, extending to the corner with ChurchStreet, has been overwhelmed by shopfronts and window replacements.

St Edmund’s Terrace

There is a good view looking north along StEdmund's Terrace towards The Green, theTown Hall and the Golden Lion.

A terrace of three storeys and basementstretches almost the whole length of the eastside of the street. By William Butterfield, itsmaterials and details are similar to those ofthe terrace facing The Green, random

squared carstone, a mix of hipped andgabled dormers, relieving arches overopenings. Here however, because it is thebasements which have become commercialpremises, the "ground floor" front doors havesurvived, together with their shallow Gothiccanopies. Paved over former front gardensare used for open air eating or for displayinggoods. Only at No 2 has a large ungainlylean-to wrap-round extension been built.

Upper floors have their usual quota ofunsympathetic window replacements. Oneof Butterfield's triangular greens marks thejunction with Westgate. Known as TheSpinney, it is planted with trees and addsmuch to the attraction of this area.

Around its edge are redundant concretebollards which detract from its charm andthe expanses of tarmac roads, whichsurround the green, also detract from whatcould be a pleasant, pedestrian-friendlypublic space.

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On the west, the side of the PrincessTheatre dominates the north end of thestreet. From this angle it appears asessentially a large shed, out of scale with itssurroundings, but its expressed framestructure infilled with panels of carstonegives it a strong local character. Itsdominance in the street scene is accentuatedby the derelict site which adjoins it andbeyond that, the poorly designed bus stationwith its vast expanse of tarmac completesthe visual disaster. Redevelopment herewould need to respect the Butterfield Terraceacross the road, provide a visualcomplement to the theatre and enhance thesetting of The Spinney. The small car parkbehind is enhanced by trees round its edge.

Westgate

The street follows the north-east tosouth-west slope of the land and, in doingso, describes a two angled bend: one at thejunction with the High Street, the otherbetween Nos 24 and 28. This allowsbuildings to be seen from different angles.Trees are important in the street. They areseen in The Spinney at the junction with LeStrange Terrace, in the large garden of No

3, and, further up the hill, in the grounds ofthe Council offices. Surviving front gardenwalls are important.

On the ‘south’ side numbers 2 to 24comprise two fine terraces of carstonehouses. Stepped up the hill, the lowerterrace has attic dormers and two storeybays (replaced in timber, to its detriment,mid terrace), the higher terrace is generallysimpler though enriched with black and whitetiles but it is spoilt by fascias to ground floorshop conversions. Nos 28 to 30 are a grandpair of typical large Victorian semi-detachedhouses with stone bays to two floors andgables. Nos 32 and 34 are, unusually forHunstanton, a pair of semi-detached housesin a classical style, disrupted at number 34by a shop front.

Union Church, an attractive building in gothicstyle of carstone and limestone with timberwindows, presents a three sided apse to thestreet (opposite the bus station), enrichedwith bands in terracotta and brick and stonedressed buttresses. Similar details may beseen on the side elevations. Concrete paths,a lack of trees and the replacement of partof the carstone boundary wall in anunsympathetic brick make the setting of thechurch somewhat bleak and especially when


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viewed across the bus station from StEdmund’s Terrace. Moving uphill from thechurch, numbers 40 to 46 make up anotherterrace, probably by Butterfield, with hippedand gabled dormers. Shop front extensions,though detracting form the original design,are, happily, not continuous, but the removalof chimneys is particularly noticeable andthe use of a "weaker" material (brick) as anew retaining plinth to an older building of a"stronger" material (carstone) is unfortunate.The original front boundary wall remains atNo 42. Number 52-54 is unusual in being asingle house with asymmetric gables. Itsquite unrelated extension - an Edwardianshop front with deep bay windows above -is, in itself, attractive and makes a positivecontribution to the street scene. Numbers56 to 70 are dominated by shop frontextensions and (62 to 68 only) first floorbays. A modern building and Sainsbury’ssupermarket take up most of the blockbetween Homefields Road and ValentineRoad. The use of a brown brick, not far offthe colour of carstone, and of giant pilastersand arches, goes some way to fit thisessentially modern building type into atraditional street, in terms of form and scale.But the two end blocks are only barelyrelated to each other and the eaves lookclumsy.

No 94 survives isolated at the corner ofValentine Road, its appearance enhancedwith a well designed new shop front andrailings around the corner.

On the ‘north’ side, number 3 is asubstantial house in large grounds with treesand boundary walls. It could be in a villagerather than in the town centre. Its contributionto the character of this part of Hunstantoncannot be over-emphasised: it is importantthat such "lungs" are retained. Its trees serveto link those in the upper and lower triangles.The Public Library enjoys a backdrop of treesand helps to screen the bus station behind.However the attached cafe and businesspremises, single storey and flat roofed, doesnothing for an area already blighted by the"sea of tarmac" at the entrance to the busstation and by the derelict former garageforecourt to the north. Between St Edmund'sTerrace and the High Street the frontage isvery broken up, with the end of the terrace,back yards and a service lane. This hasrecently been enlivened by the appearanceof outside tables to the café which forms partof the shop which turns the corner into theHigh Street. Numbers 63 - 65 are singlestorey, flat roofed and of no visualimportance. Numbers 69 and 71 have aheavy shop front extension and have lostchimneys. Number 73 survives as atraditional corner shop with a fine shop front,whilst number 75 has an attractive newshopfront accommodating a tea room.Further along, two storey terraced anddetached houses are overwhelmed by shopfront extensions.

High Street

The High Street is the principal shoppingstreet. It contains a jumble of buildings ofdifferent heights and types. They are mostlylate Victorian, but two are substantial

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post-war structures, designed as shops.Inevitably these two bear no relation to theolder buildings in the street, which are manycases domestic in origin and scale.The viewnorth is stopped by the assertive staggeredflat roofs of the modern Northgate shops.There is a lack of harmony, emphasised bythe mix of shop fronts, some of which detractand diminish the quality of the street scene.

On the east side, The Corner Café andbakers, a modest two storey building, has atraditional moulded fascia, extending overan "arcade" with cast iron columns which,even though it has little relationship with thebuilding above, is an attractive feature initself. Next to it, on a quite different scale,two modern buildings are undistinguishedand typical of the low quality of commercialdesign of their time. They clash with eachother in materials, window proportions andeven in roof line. The building at nos 8 - 16is tawdry in appearance. Number 24 iscommercial in origin: of three storeys andwell proportioned, with a pediment-like gableto the street and an equally important longside elevation. Window replacements to theupper floors and the shop front detract.Numbers 26 and 28 are similarly of threestoreys, but with the top floor as an attic withdormers cutting the eaves. The consequent

rain water plumbing dominates the facadeabove indifferent shop fronts. Numbers 30to 36 appear to be the remnant of an earliertwo storey development, some with upperbay windows. The use of large squaredcarstone gives numbers 34 and 36 amarkedly local, rural flavour. Number 40 isagain three full storeys high, in scale withBarclay's Bank on the corner (see above),but sadly marred by a poor shop fascia anda plastic projecting fascia box sign.

On the west side, numbers 1 to 9 are plaintwo storey buildings with shop frontextensions. Numbers 11 to 17 are a mixtureof two and three storeys, with typical lateVictorian bay windows or dormers cuttingthe eaves and a jumble of shop frontsunrelated to what is above. The frontagethen peters out almost completely, withnumbers 21 to 25 (a mixture of flat roofedextensions engulfing a small house), number27 (in effect a shop front filling a back yard)and a rear view of buildings in Greevegate.


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Northgate

The west side is taken up by a moderndevelopment of staggered shops with flatroofs . The change in level between theirforecourt and the street is marked only byunattractive railings. The view is bleak andcheap.

The original entrance to the church on theeast side was by the west door facingNorthgate. South of the church, numbers 3and 4 Church Close are part of a group ofbungalows for the elderly. Its concept ispleasing though its design hardly rises to thechallenge of this important site. Numbers 2and 4 Northgate, of carstone and withdormers, are a relic of earlier development,in contrast to the corner bank, they havebeen much altered by shop front insertions.

Le Strange Terrace

This short street, like The Green, isessentially part of the leisure quarter.

On its east side, a footpath leads down fromthe car park by the bus station to Le StrangeTerrace, past number 23 The Green (anattractive residential conversion) to emergebeside Bank House. This is a solid lookingcarstone house with relieving arches overwindows and classical details surviving in

the central doorway and in part of a shopfront. But it has been spoilt by modern shopfronts, plastic windows and the removal ofchimneys. Numbers 16 to 20 are anamusement arcade. Number 14 is an oddlittle carstone building with a terracottawindow in a gable facing the street. Numbers10 to 12 is the Wash and Tope Hotel, with apleasing simple facade somewhatcompromised by window replacements.Numbers 2 to 8 is a terrace, of which number2 only retains an attractive front ofsurprisingly varied carstone.

The conservation area has been extendedon the west side of the road to include thepleasant ‘Art-Deco’ style shops (nos 1 to 5)and the ‘Coal Shed’ gallery behind. This littlebuilding is a survivor of the railway complex– a coal depot office which stood in thestation yard.

THE CLIFFS and SQUARES

This area is entirely residential. It comprisesthe slightly later development of the landimmediately north of the town centre with itsgrand, formal layout and its large houses,which include the fine terraces along CliffParade and along the north side of CliffTerrace. A variety of spacious developments,spanning over several decades, are sitedaround the large formal squares of Bostonand Lincoln and along the east side ofNorthgate. The Arts and Crafts style, from

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the turn of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies, particularly the fine work by H.G.Ibberson, is represented in this area. Itboasts three substantial public open spaces,the gardens of the two squares, and theEsplanade Gardens.

Cliff Parade

The Esplanade Gardens are everything thattraditional seaside resort gardens should be.They are much used, but grass, paths andwell designed planting remain carefullytended, while all the "furniture" looks justright. Bowls, putting and children's play areall catered for. At the southern end the WarMemorial (a mini Cenotaph) is surroundedby colourful bedding plants. Attractive smallbuildings include the restaurant (pyramidroof), the toilets (half hipped roof) and theattendant's hut (with loggia). The flat roof ofthe refreshment kiosk is a pity. The designof the roadside railings is unusual andinteresting.

On the east side of Cliff Parade, the tallbuildings have bay windows framed inpainted stonework, keyed into the carstone.The layout and the continuous cast ironbalconies may be reminiscent of theRegency, but the building style is solidly "OldEnglish", even to the gothic doorways.Enormous chimneys survive, but in manyinstances concrete tiles have replacedslates. The northern terrace is similar inmaterials but, instead of the gabled skyline,it has a continuous row of small dormersculminating at each end, in the French style,with a mansard roofed pavilion and a pointedroofed corner turret or ‘belvedere’. In thisterrace some roofs have beenunsympathetically renewed in concrete tiles,some steps have been rebuilt in concreteand front gardens have been tarmaced overand separated by unattractive dwarf walls.

The conservation area has been extendedalong Cliff Parade to include the green fromthe sea wall to the road and from (andincluding) the pier replacement building upto the lighthouse and the buildings aroundit. Also included are the former coastguardcottages and the coastguard look-outbuilding of around 1910 and the northernpromenade.


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When Hunstanton started to be built in the1850s, green spaces were an important partof the concept. The arrival of the railway inthe 1860s brought day-trippers who wereable to parade from the station across thegreen and along the cliff top to thelighthouse. This open space, which followson from the present Esplanade Gardens, stillremains, despite coastal erosion, with itsthree handsome shelters.

The southernmost of these was built in 1898as a memorial to Francis Hewitt of Leicesterand bears a plaque to that effect.The middleshelter is at risk and will need re-locatingsoon; the northern and southern shelters areless affected.

This strip of land, now boarded on the eastby modern seaside housing, is included inthe conservation area. It is part of the originalresort and also provides the visual extensionto Lincoln Square.

Cliff Terrace

Cliff Terrace (1873) is exactly aligned on theaxis of the church.There is a fine view of thechurch looking up the street, although it israther obscured by trees.

On its north side, the terrace turns thecorner and then sets back, to be followed bya further terrace, stepping up the hill, insimilar style but without an attic.This framesthe church and leads the eye up to it, but onone side only.

In contrast, the south side is a visualdisaster with poor architecture. Cliff Court isat one end and the backs of the staggeredshops at the other. In between a service andgarage court only further erodes the streetfrontage.The use of "crazy" concrete pavingon the small island at the junction with CliffParade gives it a barren character, at oddswith the gardens opposite.

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Boston Square

The gardens have recently been laid out asa Sensory Garden, with flair and imagination.Features include a pool with a fountain, wallsof loose flints in cages, screens and seats,pergolas and decking, varied textures and"dry" planting.

On the south side of the square, ConnaughtHouse turns the corner of the terrace on CliffParade. Numbers 6, 8 and 10 are goodexamples of the Arts and Crafts style of theturn of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies: a good period for English domesticarchitecture.

They are by H. G. Ibberson, a Londonarchitect, who built a number of houses inHunstanton with a distinctive style.

The terrace on Cliff Parade turns the corneron the north side. Numbers 5 and 7 areparticularly fine Arts and Crafts style,

Lincoln Square

The square looks onto a pleasant grassedarea surrounded by trees, which do battlewith the strong prevailing wind.

On the south side, the terrace on CliffParade turns the corner in style, but is thenextended in a clumsy and dull fashion. Thisis followed by two pairs of modern low riseflats, with jagged monopitch roofs, whichvisually do nothing for this prime site.Number 8 (with number 35 Northgate) are apair of turn of the century houses in an Artsand Crafts style.

On the north side, Westcliffe Court is partof a larger modern development of flatswhich continues round the corner along CliffParade. Its scale, though right for theParade, is too high for the Square and itshorizontal lines and flat roof, disguised by a"mansard", strike a discordant note besidethe older Parade terraces to the south.


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Numbers 3 to 9, of carstone with baysextending up as parapet dormers, are aninteresting group in a mildly Arts and Craftsstyle. The introduction of plastic windowsthough carried out fairly sensitively, strikesa discordant note, particularly when"pseudo-sashes" are open. There aresurviving carstone front garden walls.

Northgate

Northgate is a major north-south routeparallel to Cliff Parade to the west and themain Cromer Road to the east.

Northgate forms the eastern end of bothBoston and Lincoln Squares. Its west sideis therefore largely made up of either sideelevations of houses facing the square andentries to back lanes. Larch lap fencing isinappropriate here. The rear wing of No 9Boston Square has an Arts and Craftscircular turret with bands of carstone andchequerboard carstone and flint balancedby a horizontal band of windows (motifs ofthe architect H. G. Ibberson). No 47 is asmall Arts and Crafts style cottage.

On the east side, a typical large-scalebay-windowed Victorian terrace includes theVicarage (number 10) with a niceonion-domed corner turret. It has an Arts andCrafts style extension towards the churchwith blind arcading in carstone and a crossin the gable joining first floor and atticwindows. Number 24 (with number 28 AustinStreet) is a superb Arts and Crafts stylebuilding of random carstone with hugeoverhanging dormers above shallowrendered bay windows in the manner ofVoysey. It has an Art Nouveau lead sundialon a chimney (probably originally higher)bearing the text 'It is better to travel hopefullythan to arrive.'

It was the architect H G Ibberson’s house.Numbers 30, 32 and 34 together with 2Lower Lincoln Street are two pairs ofimposing semi-detached houses in theQueen Anne style with mansard roofs andtall dormers. Number 2 has a terracottaplaque inscribed 1898. Larch-lap fencing onthe Lower Lincoln Street frontage looks outof place. Number 36, a large carstone housewith gables and dormers has been convertedto flats. This has involved an extension onthe corner with Lower Lincoln Street, whilefive further houses in similar style of one ortwo storeys and attics complete the sidestreet frontage. Forms and materials aregenerally in sympathy with the originalbuilding, although window replacements inthe old house are visually of lesser "weight"than the originals. Numbers 38 to 50 aresubstantial typical late Victorian houses,detached or semi-detached: half-timberedgables reflect the growing interest invernacular traditions, though the use of hardred brick combined with carstone is solidlyVictorian.

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EAST HUNSTANTON

This is a small area immediately east of theTown Centre It includes, in Valentine Road,the former Convalescent Home (now flats)and the former Children's ConvalescentHome (now council offices), the mainlyresidential development of small terracedhouses in Church Street and James Streetand the more spacious residentialdevelopment of the eastern end ofGreevegate. Most of this area appears todate from much the same period as the‘Cliffs & Greens’ area; i.e. the 1870s or1880s. The street pattern is a regular grid,but the flats and the council offices are builtat an angle within the grid. The counciloffices stand in substantial grounds, most ofit devoted to car parking, but the grounds ofthe former convalescent home have nowbeen developed.

Greevegate

The eastern end of Greevegate is entirelyresidential and has retained the air of aprosperous Victorian suburb. Some originalstone walls and railings have been lost andsome have been replaced in brick orconcrete block. Many windows havereplacement plastic, though in most cases,

they are back from the wall face and haveimitated the pattern of glazing bars. Thisreduces their impact.

On the north side, number 33, covered increeper, has an important position on thecorner opposite the church. Numbers 35 to53 are pairs of very grand semi-detachedhouses, of carstone with painted stonedressings, in the "Old English" style. Typicalare numbers 43-45 with two storey baywindows with pierced stone parapets andpaired windows above, surmounted bygables with trefoil openings. Number 45 hasits original windows and an attractive sideoriel window. The carstone of one hasunfortunately been painted over and anothershows the effect of new windows beingplaced too far forward.

Numbers 38-40 on the south side aresimilar in style to those on the north side, butwith ornate cast iron cresting to bayparapets. Number 40, which is "doublefronted", has retained original windows.Numbers 42 to 46 have red brick dressings,decorative terra cotta panel and curved leadroofs with iron cresting to bays. Numbers 54to 58 are two storey with attics and gables,in a very rural style.

Valentine Road

From Greevegate to Westgate (on its eastside), Valentine Road is dominated by twobuildings which have played a unique rolein the short history of Hunstanton. Bothconvalescent homes, the northernmost ofthe two for adults was completed in 1874,the southern one for children, in 1907.Though on square sites in a regular streetgrid, both are placed diagonally, so as toface south-west, presumably to maximise"green" views from the wards. The first hasbeen converted to flats and much of the


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grounds built over with houses. The 1874building, of carstone red brick and slate, israther sombre but is relieved by gables withwhite painted timber details and attractivewhite painted porches. The removal of allchimneys detracts very considerably fromits appearance. The loss of open space andtrees and the introduction of large areas oftarmac are regrettable, but the design of thenew houses, in keeping with that of theoriginal building, is exemplary. The 1907building, converted to local governmentoffices, is a typical institutional building of itstime: formally symmetrical but with an Artsand Crafts flavour. It is more attractive thanits older neighbour. Limestone bays andbands relieve the carstone, brick and slate;chimneys survive and the roof is crownedby an ornate ventilator. Trees and somegrass have survived the change of use. Asmall modern health centre fits in happily ina corner of the grounds.

On the west side, the most importantbuilding is the school on the corner of JamesStreet. It is a typical late nineteenth centuryboard school, though the use of carstonegives it a more local, vernacular appearance.A master's house is attached at one end.Stone mullioned windows give a nod to the"Old English" style. The original stoneboundary walls survive. Numbers 1-3 aresimilar to houses in James Street, whilenumbers 9-11 form an attractive pair of smallcottages next to the school.

Church Street

This is for the most part a quiet residentialstreet, with walled front gardens.The housesare mostly small, of two storeys andterraced, some with attic dormers, some withbay windows. Many windows have beenreplaced with plastic, though in most casesan attempt has been made to keep in some

sympathy with the originals. Many slate roofshave been replaced with concrete tiles.Chimneys are generally intact. North of thejunction with James Street the street risesgently to Greevegate and then levels outpast the church.

Built of carstone, most of the houses on theeast side are of modest scale and could bedescribed as cottages. Numbers 40 to 50are built hard up to the pavement. Numbers40 and 42, which share a gable end facingthe street, are unusual. Number 68, at theend of the terrace north of the church, hasbeen drastically altered and so breaks theunity of the terrace.

The Witley Press takes up most of thefrontage from James Street to Greevegateon the west side. It has three sections: aninteresting early twentieth century framedbuilding with a wide-span curved roof, anolder small building with its gable to thestreet and a dull flat roofed building of the1950s.

James Street

On the north side, numbers 1 to 7 are smallcarstone terraced houses but their bays havepierced parapets like those in more

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up-market Greevegate. No original windowssurvive. The south side is taken up by theschool.

East of Valentine Road, the street isunmade. On the north side attractive pinetrees from the former convalescent homegrounds survive in the back gardens of thenew houses. On the south side are thehealth centre and the hedge and trees of theCouncil offices.

Westgate (east of Valentine Road)

The trees in the grounds of the Counciloffices are a significant element looking eastup Westgate past Sainsbury’s supermarket.On the south side, numbers 96-98 (TaborHouse) are an original pair of houses ofcarstone and brick now in commercial use.A flat roofed modern corner extension inmatching materials links successfully to anolder barn-like carstone building on ValentineRoad (outside the Conservation Area).Number 98 is linked to Swain's, a largemodern office building, of two storeys andattic, set back from the road behind parkingThis in turn is linked to number 6 King's LynnRoad, an Arts and Crafts style house withpebble dash render and exaggeratedcarstone quoins.

Kings Lynn Road (from Greevegate toWestgate)

On the east side stone walls and piers markthe entrance to the Recreation Ground whiletrees on the verge provide an attractiveedge. On the west side an important wallmarks the boundary of the formerconvalescent home.

THE AVENUES

This area extends north-eastwards from StEdmund's Church and appears to date fromaround the turn of the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries. It is almost entirelyresidential and includes the terraced and"semi-terraced" houses of Victoria, York,Glebe and St Edmund's Avenues togetherwith the more spacious developments inLincoln Street and Austin Street. The streetpattern is basically a grid, although thechange in alignment of the main A149 makeseach road north of Lincoln Street longer thanthe one before. Most of the houses are builtto standard designs and their characterdepends on their uniformity. But a number,under the influence of the Arts and Craftsmovement, have individual features ofparticular interest.

Church Street (from St Edmund's ChurchHall to Lower Lincoln Street)

This section of Church Street largelycomprises the sides of properties in thestreets to either side and is therefore brokenup. Number 75 is a small house in the Artsand Crafts style. On the east side are twodissimilar pairs of semi-detached houses.

St Edmund's Avenue (from Lower LincolnStreet to Victoria Avenue)

Most of the west side is the back ofproperties in Northgate.

On the east side, number 8 has been greatlyaltered. Numbers 10 to 18 are a mostattractive carstone terrace with unusual tallDutch-gabled dormers, though thereplacement of slates and windows has insome instances damaged their appearance.


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Austin Street

Of medium to large size, detached or semidetached, the houses in Austin Street varyin style and include several of more thanusual interest.

On the corner with the King's Lynn Road, onthe north side of Austin Street stands theWesley Church of 1886. Built of carstoneand limestone in a gothic style, at first sightit appears to be an octagon (like a cathedralchapter house). In fact the "octagon" hasonly five sides which merge with the body ofthe church. A porch is attached, ratheruncomfortably, at the front.

Nightingale Lodge is asymmetrical in anelaborate Tudor style. The ground floor is ofbrick with dressings and mullioned windowsin white painted stone.The upper floor is halftimbered, with timber windows. Bays, linkedby balconies, project on the front and on thecorners. Number 18 is of red brick withprojecting half timbered gables over bays.No 20 appears as a plain carstone house onthe corner with Church Street, except for therichly detailed bay windows, balcony andporch of white painted stone "appliqued" onthe front in a free classical style. Numbers22, 24 and 26 are in the Arts and Craftsstyle.

On the south side, number 9, in H GIbberson’s distinctive style, has chequeredflint and carstone wailing, a deep bay and aheavy stone arched entrance. Aluminiumwindows have replaced the original metalCrittal types.

Lincoln Street

On the north side, The Retreat is unique.Like adjacent houses, two ranges at rightangles to one another sprout huge Arts andCrafts style bay windows and anextraordinary classical doorway in whitefaience, which must surely have beenintended for a completely different building.Numbers 5 to 11 are pairs of conventionalwell-proportioned semi-detached housesfrom the turn of the century. Theydemonstrate clearly the impact of windowreplacements: No 7 shows the windows asdesigned; No 9 shows new windows whichcopy the original configuration. A hedge infront of No 15 continues round into CromerRoad.

The modern bungalows on the south sideare pleasant but of no special interest.

Lower Lincoln Street

On the south side, numbers 4 and 6, apleasing pair of semi-detached houses ofcarstone with pebble dashed gables, showthe influence of the Arts and Craftsmovement.

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Glebe Avenue

The avenue trees are particularly attractivehere and on the north side, number 1, thecorner building, is a large three storey blockwhich has lost quality by the part-blockingof windows and the use of concrete roof tiles.A continuous terrace of smaller houses,numbers 5 to 29, has been much altered. Incontrast, numbers 31 and 33 are a fine pairof large semi-detached houses of carstoneand brick, with painted stone bays whichinclude decorative cast iron mullions andcarved panels of fruit, corn etc., decorativebargeboards to attic gables, an unusualsmall decorative gable joining the two baysand keystones with grotesque heads.Original windows, with an attractive patternof glazing bars, all survive.

On the south side, numbers 4 to 14 arestraight forward semi-detached houses ofcarstone and brick, remaining more or lessof a piece. Numbers 16 and 18 are anunusual pair, with a central joint bay fromground to attic, half timbered on the upperfloors. Numbers 20 and 22 are modernbungalows.

York Avenue

Sadly the trees have been removed in theinterests of improved parking. Happily, newtrees have been planted to restore theavenue. On the north side, number 1 is partof a well designed corner building NumberlA is a plain little building which throughalteration has lost original character.Numbers 3, 5 and 7 have the tallDutch-gabled dormers seen in St Edmund'sAvenue. Number 3 has a two storey bay withterracotta ornament. Numbers 5 and 7, withsingle storey bays and three windows over,have replacement windows. Unexceptionalbut pleasant terraced and semi-detachedhouses take up most of the rest of thisfrontage.Walls are of carstone and red brickor red and gault brick. Features includepebble dash render, bell-mouthed out overwindows or in decorative panels, and largehalf-timbered dormers. Many have beenspoilt by inappropriate window replacements.Number 45, on the corner of Cromer Road,must date from the early twentieth century.It has three elevations one to each roadfrontage, similar but not identical, and a thirdacross the corner. Walls are mainly brick,but flint and red chalk banded with carstoneare used for the two extreme end bays andpebble dash for a dominant mansard gableon the corner. Sash windows with exposedframes and thick glazing bars, a Venetianwindow in the gable, giant pilasters andhipped roofs are typical of the Queen Annestyle, but the gable and unusual leaddecoration on the capitals are clearly Artsand Crafts.

On the south side, is a corner shop with anunsympathetic extension. Numbers 8 and10 are a fine pair of double-frontedsemi-detached houses of carstone and brickwith complex two storey bays and largehalf-timbered dormers. Numbers 12 to 30


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are more ordinary semi-detached houses.Some feature decorative panels of pebbledash. These are followed by three laterhouses of little interest and finally, on thecorner with Cromer Road, Glebe Flats, alarge house of carstone and pebble dashfeaturing grotesque heads as keystones andan upward extension of the porch, apparentlysupported on lengths of railway line.

Victoria Avenue

On the north side, numbers 3, 5 and 7 areof particular interest. Like no other inHunstanton, this short terrace has acontinuous moulded and crenellated parapethiding the roof. Ground floor bay parapetsare also crenellated (though one has beenroofed over). Entrance doors to 3 and 7 arein side porches, again with crenellatedparapets. 5 has an extra window over thedoor. Walls are of red brick with gault brickdressings and decoration and arches are ofgauged red brick. Windows have all beenreplaced - slightly differently in each house.

Numbers 9 to 39 and 43 to 69 are standardlate Victorian terraced or semi-detachedhouses with hipped bay windows, some ofcarstone and brick but most of brick only withdecorative panels and roof finials of terra

cotta. Window replacements and removal offinials have caused some loss ofarchitectural unity. Number 41, doublefronted, has rendered dormer gables in theArts and Crafts manner. Number 71 turnsthe corner into Cromer Road with a twostorey bay, while its other bays have pebbledashed gables, decorative shafts betweenwindows and terracotta ornament.

Numbers 6 to 64 on the south side are allterraced houses, though not all are thesame. Numbers 38 and 40, of carstone andbrick, have two storey bays which continuestraight up as dormers. Numbers 50 and 52are double fronted and have pebble dashedupper floors. Number 66, presents to thestreet a large ungainly gable end.

St Edmund’s Avenue

The conservation area has been extendedto include the stretch of St Edmund’s Avenuebetween York and Victoria Avenues.

Numbers 20 to 28 (together with number 1York Avenue and number 2 Victoria Avenue)are all very much of a piece with theadjoining buildings within the conservationarea: medium to large semi-detached housesof carstone and brick with white paintedstone dressings to bay windows and big

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dormers. Detractors include an inserted shopfront and some unsympathetic windowreplacements. The corner is successfullyturned into York Avenue, with bays andgables on both fronts, in a smaller-scaleversion of the corner of Cliff Parade / CliffTerrace.

Cromer Road

Park View is attached to 66 Victoria Avenue.To the south a single storey commercialbuilding, with flat roof and off-the-peg baywindow and "leaded" glazing, detracts fromthis otherwise pleasant area. Otherwisehedges predominate, with the playing fieldsto the east and small gardens to the west.

Outside the Conservation Area, Glebe HouseSchool and the trees in its grounds aroundtwo main buildings form part of the earlytown development. The buildings are amajor feature at the entrance to theconservation area from the north. They alsoform a visual stop to views up York andGlebe Avenues.

SOUTH HUNSTANTON

This lies immediately south of the TownCentre and appears to date mostly from theturn of the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies. It has a fall from north-east tosout-west. Park Road runs straight throughthe area from east to west, but the layout ofother roads is angled (Avenue Road) orcurved (Sandringham Road and HomefieldsRoad). The area, while largely residential inproperties varying greatly in size and density,also includes the modern Community Centreand the Telephone Exchange on AvenueRoad as well as a number of conversions oflarge detached houses in Sandringham Roadand Homefields Road to hotels, homes forthe elderly and a club. The Playing Fields, a

large public open space in the centre of the"zone", are an important urban amenity.Though there has been some loss due tothe subdivision of curtilages, trees in largeprivate gardens in Sandringham Road andHomefields Road contribute greatly to thecharacter of the area.

Chapel Lane

This is a traditional back service lane, withrear entrances, garages and former coachhouses and stables, originally servingWestgate but later serving Avenue Road aswell. It is unmade and on a steady incline,resulting inevitably in some erosion of thesurface by heavy rain. There is an attractiveview looking up the lane from SouthendRoad. Buildings of interest include, on the"south" side, numbers 1 and 3 (asemi-detached pair, with relieving archesover windows, suggesting they are part ofthe earliest development), Elm Cottage,workshops in former cottages and LynfieldHall and, on the "north" side, OsbourneCottage and a former coach house behindnumber 50 Westgate.


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Southend Road

This is the principal entrance to the towncentre from the south. The former presenceof the railway line immediately to the westaccounts for the absence of anydevelopment on the west side of the road.The east side comprises numbers 1 to 21,a terrace of carstone cottages, mostly twostoried, with small front gardens. Manyalterations have been made: bays andporches added, windows replaced in aconflicting variety of sizes and patterns andslates replaced by a variety of different tiles.But the carstone walls, with typical relievingarches over openings, help to hold the wholetogether and harmonise with the granderbuildings of the town centre beyond. At thesouthern end a used car lot badly erodes thetownscape on the corner of Park Road.

Park Road

On the north side, nos 3 to 7, the playingfield and the twentieth century blocks of flatsare within the conservation area which hasbeen extended here. The flats are of amodern design though sit well on the edgeof the open space created by the playingfield, which is otherwise surrounded bySandringham Road and the CommunityCentre. It provides a modern version of thegreens found elsewhere in the developmentof Hunstanton.

On the south side, nos. 6 to 22 are a groupof semi-detached properties and then HillStreet and nos 28 to 42, a row of moresubstantial properties culminating in thestylish ‘Skopios’ formerly Beechwood House.

Hill Street

Numbers 1 and 3 have exceptionally largeblocks of carstone in the rubble walling, arereminiscent of rural Arts and Crafts cottagesof the early twentieth century.

Avenue Road

A smooth double curved alignment, a gentlefall and trees (in the larger private gardensand in the grounds of the Youth Centre andthe Telephone Exchange (both outside theConservation Area) combine to enhancewhat would otherwise be an unremarkablelate Victorian suburban road. The houses,on both sides, are typically of red and gaultbrick, with terracotta ridges, finials anddecorative panels, half timbered gables todouble height bays, slate roofs and sashwindows. Gate piers and garden walls havesurvived to a remarkable extent. Most aresemi-detached and two storied, a few aredetached and some are three storied.Numbers 8 to 14 are different, with talldormers in moulded brick or stone. Manywindows have been replaced. Nos 2 and 2Aare modern bungalows. Number 33 and 35with number 2 Sandringham Road is anunusual large house (now flats). It has an1893 date stone, bays across two corners,

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decorative cast iron shafts between windowsand an amazing variety of terracottaornament (a basket of fruit, a lighthouse etc),but window and tile replacements andexternal plumbing damage it.

Homefields Road

Numbers 2 to 8 are small terraced housessimilar to those in Church Street. Number10, though attached to the terrace, is at rightangles to the road and faces over aremarkably large garden for such a centralsite. Its trees are important in the townscape.Number 20, an Edwardian house, has a twostorey fully glazed corner turret with leadedonion dome and finial. Its extension as aresidential home has been designed inharmony with the older building.

The road sweeps round in a curve, allowingever-changing viewpoints to be enjoyed ofthe large older houses and trees in this area.Some gardens have been sub-divided andsmaller houses built on them. This makes itall the more important that the remaininglarge gardens with their trees are conserved.

On the north side, number 24 (Oriel Lodge)is a carstone house with bays and anattractive front porch which swells out toincorporate the bays on either side. Number26 is also of note.

The United Services Club on the south side,is a very large carstone house, with a timberporch, large mullioned stair window andother fine details.

Sandringham Road

This road has two sweeping curves. Part ofits length is shared with Homefields Road,where it is open to the Playing Field on one

side. Like Homefields Road it has a numberof fine late Victorian or Edwardian houses inlarge grounds with trees.

On the west side, immediately south of ParkRoad, ‘Skopios’ (formerly Birchwood House)is a very large Edwardian house in theQueen Anne style, of brick with carstonedetails, with a fine domed corner turret,attractive former coach house and splendidgate piers on the corner. High carstone wallsline boundaries along both roads. South ofthe junction with Collingwood Road, theRoman Catholic Church of Our Lady and StEdmund is in an Arts and Crafts style with agothic flavour, typical of many smallerchurches and chapels around the turn of thecentury. Its grounds are well planted withtrees.

The Convent of St Teresa and 29, on theeast side, are a continuous group of turn ofthe century carstone houses in substantialgardens with important trees and front walls.


Character Statement

Homefields Lane

The conservation area has been extendedto include the properties on the south sideof the road running along the rear ofproperties facing Sandringham Road.

Post War Development

Hunstanton has continued to grow since1945.While most of the new commercial andleisure developments have been outside theconservation area, the expansion of the towncoupled with new patterns of shopping haveled to a number of major commercialdevelopments in the town centre, eitherwithin the conservation area or just outsideits boundaries.Within the conservation areaare Sainsbury's supermarket in Westgate,the shopping precinct in Northgate and theredevelopment of part of one side of the HighStreet.

On its boundary is Harlequin Houseimmediately south of The Green. A numberof houses have been converted tocommercial use. A couple of small newshops have been built in Westgate and manyshops have been extended or converted intoone.

The only large office developments withinthe conservation area comprise theconversion of the former children'sconvalescent home in Valentine Road andSwain's new offices in Westgate.

New residential development has mostlytaken place on the edges of the town andhas been relatively limited within theconservation area. Large developmentsinclude two flats on the south side of CliffTerrace and on the north side of LincolnSquare. Smaller developments of flatsinclude groups in Park Road and LincolnSquare and the conversion of the formerconvalescent home in Valentine Road andof a number of larger houses (e.g. in CliffParade). Individual or grouped houses havebeen built in Valentine Court (in the groundsof the former convalescent home), ChurchClose (beside the Parish Church), LowerLincoln Street, York Avenue, Glebe Avenue,Lincoln Street, Lower Lincoln Street,Homefields Road, Park Road and AvenueRoad. A number of large houses have beenconverted, and in some cases extended, foruse as residential homes for the elderly (e.g.in Homefields Road and SandringhamRoad). For a town which owes its existenceto the coming of the railway in the nineteenthcentury, the closing of the line, which cameright into the town centre, together with themassive post-war increase in the use of themotor car, has had a major impact onHunstanton. The demolition of the stationand of Sandringham Hotel (the railway hotel)and the redevelopment of their site, the usefor parking of the former railway landalongside Southend Road and of land off StEdmund's Terrace and the development ofthe bus station all arise directly from thesechanges.

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Other post-war developments include theHealth Centre in Valentine Road, the YouthCentre and the Telephone Exchange inAvenue Road, the Pier Centre amusementarcade in place of the pier head (destroyedby fire), new beach huts with terrace over atthe north end of The Green, the PublicLibrary and adjoining cafe in Westgate, thegarage and car lot on either side of thejunction of Park Road and Southend Road,a small office in Cromer Road (behind No66 Victoria Avenue) and the conversion toretail use of the former garage in StEdmund's Terrace.

Listed Buildings

There are six listed structures in theconservation area. The statutory list ofbuildings of special architectural or historicinterest was published in 1951 and addedto in 1984.

Listed Grade II

• Cross, The Green. Comprises base andshaft of medieval cross. Formerly in OldHunstanton and moved here by Henry LeStrange when he founded the new town.

• Church of St Edmund, Greevegate.1865-9, by Frederick Preedy, cousin ofHenry Le Strange.West porch, now blocked,1874, north aisle 1879, south porch 1934.No tower. Victorian Gothic style, with platetracery in C13 manner. Carstone, limestone,flint, red chalk. Stained glass includeswindows by Kempe and Comper.

• Golden Lion Hotel, The Green. 1846,perhaps by William Butterfield, friend ofHenry Le Strange. Formerly the Royal Hotel.The first building on the site of the new town.Victorian Tudor Gothic style (or, as LeStrange called it, "Old English"). Squaredcarstone in random courses. Limestonemullion and transom windows and gablecopings. Asymmetrical composition withgothic arched porch.

• Town Hall, The Green. 1896, by G J andF W Skipper of Norwich.Victorian Jacobeanstyle, but very free. Carstone rubble withsquared dressings. Limestone architecturaldetails and copings. Limestone mullion andtransom windows, but wood cruciformcasements to ground floor. Two storeytripartite front facade to The Green andsingle storey hall to rear. Central gable tofront, with, on first floor, windows in a-b-aarrangement with Ionic pilasters between; ingable over, clock with strapwork surroundand, on ground floor, central flattened archeddoorway. To either side elevation set back.Side elevation to Greevegate, more freestyle, includes five-sided two storey porchwith conical roof and wood cupola.

• Ruins of St Edmunds Chapel, CliffParade. Medieval ruined church in flint withsome dressings. Battered buttress of clunchand chalk lump with brick dressings at SWcorner. Wall with early C20 brick and tiledround head arch. Footings of aisle-less naveand chancel mostly rebuilt in the early C20.


Character Statement

Site associated in Middle Ages with landingplace of King Edmund of East Anglia whowas later martyred by the Danes. It is alsotraditionally the northern end of PeddarsWay.

• The Lighthouse, Lighthouse Lane. Formerlighthouse c.1830 & cottages attached to thenorth. Rendered stuccoed brick with slatedroof. Classically inspired circular batteredtower in 4 storeys with a coat of arms at baseand a single round headed window to eachfloor. Heavy modillion blocks form bracketsfor gallery with iron balcony around a cantedtop-storey with C20 termination above.Cottage to north (was balanced by one tothe south now demolished). Gothic. 2 storeygable with ground floor pedimented baywindow, first floor window with drip mould.C20 casements inserted. Kneelers andcoped parapets, roof replaced and stacks tonorth reduced. Door with rusticateddressings in wing connecting to lighthouse.

Important Unlisted Buildings

The special quality of Hunstantonconservation area, while greatly enhancedby its listed buildings, also owes much to alarge number of important unlisted buildings.These contribute to the character or historicinterest of the town, by their position or groupvalue in relation to other buildings or as partof a larger whole (e.g. a terrace of houses)or by their use of local materials. They mayalso be good examples of a particularbuilding type or period or of the work of anamed architect. 438 such buildings havebeen identified, representing 82% of a totalof 530 unlisted buildings in the ConservationArea. (For this purpose each property in acontinuous frontage or terrace is counted asone building and each block of flats as onebuilding).

Traditional Materials

The materials so clearly seen in the cliffs atHunstanton are all to be found in buildingshere: white and red chalk and carstone, butof the three only carstone is commonly foundin the new town and it is used withexuberance, in a variety of sizes andcoursing detail – all with fine joints. No doubtthe Victorians, who built to last for ever,considered chalk too friable for generalbuilding purposes. Exceptions are the redchalk, used decoratively, in the parish churchand in low retaining walls in the EsplanadeGardens. The predominance ofreddish-brown carstone lends a somewhatsombre appearance to parts of the town,particularly in north facing buildings. But inmany places it is relieved by limestone (oftenpainted white) for window openings, bays,copings etc. Flint is used for the church, but

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can also be seen, used decoratively, on anumber of houses in the Arts and Craftsstyle. Local materials include:

Carstone (usually squared and crudelycoursed, but also as rubble)White chalkRed chalk (rose chalk or Hunstantonred rock)Flint ( knapped)Red brickGault brick (cream colour but weatherto grey)Red clay pantiles

To these local materials should be addedWelsh slates. Some buildings are renderedor painted not always with visual success.

Archaeological Interest

There are no scheduled Ancient Monumentsin the Conservation Area.

Detractors

The special character of Conservation Areascan easily be eroded by insensitive newdevelopments or by seemingly minoralterations such as ill considered or

uncoordinated window replacements, theuse of unsympathetic materials for buildingsor external works, the removal of walls,railings, trees or hedges or the use ofinappropriate front boundary features.

Particular attention is drawn to the following:

The visually chaotic and architecturallydamaging effects of uncoordinatedcommercial developments in the centralarea. These include extensions out tothe pavement and unsympathetic shopfronts and signs. They are widespreadon the frontage facing The Green andin Greevegate, Westgate, High Streetand Le Strange Terrace. In order toredress this, the Borough Council hasintroduced a Shopfront Guide. Asummary version of this is attached.Ill considered and uncoordinatedwindow replacements. These may beseen on the upper floors of shops in thecommercial area and are widespreadthroughout the residential areas.Replacement windows are less intrusivevisually if they replicate the original andare set back in a reveal.The removal of chimneys in thecommercial area


Character Statement

Modern developments which pay little regardto existing street patterns or to the scale,form or materials of existing buildings.Notable among these are Cliff Court flats,Northgate shopping precinct, HarlequinHouse (outside the Conservation Area), thebus station cafe adjoining the Library, infillbuildings at the junction of St Edmund'sTerrace and Greevegate, flats on both sidesof Lincoln Square and the ‘Pier’ amusementcentre on The Green, with its blank end wallpointing to the beach, detracting from theviews back, into the Conservation Area.

Particular attention is drawn to the following:

The "sea" of tarmac by the entrance tothe bus station and the derelict formergarage site next to it.The exposed side view of the PrincessTheatre as seen from St Edmund'sTerrace.The obtrusive flat roofed shelters at thenorth end of The Green.Flat roof and barbed wire east of theTown Hall in Greevegate.The removal of the balcony to No 14Greevegate (part of a fine terrace).The use of tarmac or concrete andmodern brick dwarf walls on forecourtsof properties in fine terrace on CliffParade (between Lincoln and BostonSquares).

The redundant concrete bollards aroundThe Spinney.The proliferation of poles and overheadcables.

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Shop Front Guide

The appearance of town centre shoppingstreets is shaped by the design and qualityof the shopfronts and advertisements asmuch as the variety and style of the buildingsthemselves. The character of Hunstantontown centre is no exception. It has a numberof shopfronts of distinction.

Yet the original design of the town did notenvisage a shopping centre of any great sizeand comparatively few shops were provided.As a result shops and shopfronts have grownas additions to existing buildings, oftenattached as single storey extensions to thefront. Not all of these have been achievedwith visual success; indeed the majority lack

both quality and a pleasing appearance.The result can often be a jumble of mixeddesigns, with over-large fascias and littlerespect to the original building behind theshopfront. This detracts from the characterof the conservation area.

In order to redress this and preserve thespecial quality of the conservation area, ashopfront and advertisement policy has beenproduced.

Where existing shopfronts do not make apositive contribution to the street scene, oractually detract from it, a substantial visualimprovement will be required when proposalsfor replacements are made. A simple ‘likefor like’ replacement will not be acceptable.A shopfront in sympathy with its host buildingand the character of the conservation areawill be required and enforcement action willbe taken, where necessary, to ensure this.

Full copies of the Shopfront Guide can bedownloaded from the Borough Council’swebsite, www.west-norfolk.gov.uk or fromthe Conservation Section in DevelopmentServices.


Character Statement

Conservation Objectives

Statement 1

The overall conservation objective is to protect and reinforce the establishedspecial character of Conservation Areas and their setting.

This will be achieved by:

Encouraging the retention and maintenance of buildings which contribute to theoverall character of each conservation areaEnsuring that new development is sympathetic to the special qualities and characterof each conservation areaProtecting the setting of the conservation area from development which adverselyaffects views into or out of the areaThe retention, maintenance and locally appropriate new planting of treesMaintaining and enhancing local features and details which contribute towards anarea's local distinctivenessWorking with the community to prepare schemes of enhancementEncouraging the removal of detractors to the special character of each conservationarea

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Contacts and advice

Within conservation areas, a number of special controls apply and it is advisable that anyone proposing to carry out new development, alteration, extensions, installations or demolition should seek advice from Development Services at an early stage. Special controls also apply to the trees sand some may be subject to Tree Preservation Orders. Anyone wishing to carry out work to trees within a Conservation Area should therefore seek advice from Development Services.

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