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Clifton House and Tower
Heritage Open Day: Unique merchant house lovingly restored by its present owners. A grand early 18th-century merchant house with an entrance flanked by barley-sugar columns. It has a brick undercroft c.1350 and a five-storey Elizabethan watchtower overlooking the Wash, which has been carefully restored and incorporates a little museum and rooms showing historic furniture. A magnificent Queen Anne staircase rises to elegant rooms.
Open from 1200. Expect queues. Numbers to the tower are restricted.
Sun 8 Sep:1200-1600; Free Entry.
Clifton House, 17 Queen Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1HT
Sun 8 September