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The Valiant Sailor, Nelson Street
Heritage Open Day: A former pub named after a 1797 war hero. New for 2025. We are very fortunate that the current owners have opened their home for 2025.
The Valiant Sailor, 2 Nelson Street, is a Grade II*, jettied (overhanging), timber-framed building, dating from around 1500. Today a private house, the building has also served as an arcade of shops, a marine chandlery and The Valiant Sailor inn and pub which last opened in 1925. It stands on the site of Priory buildings that where cleared in the Reformation 1540-50. Nelson Street was previously known as Lath(e) Street.
The Valiant Sailor reportedly takes its name from the actions of Jack Crawford during the Battle of Camperdown against the Dutch in 1797. In the 1950s, the house became the home of oil and watercolour painter Walter Dexter RBA (1876-1958). In 1971 Dr Elizabeth Harrison, King’s Lynn’s first female GP, purchased The Valiant Sailor and made it her home for 51 years, longer than anyone else in the house’s history.
The Valiant Sailor, 2 Nelson Street, is a Grade II*, jettied (overhanging), timber-framed building, dating from around 1500. Today a private house, the building has also served as an arcade of shops, a marine chandlery and The Valiant Sailor inn and pub which last opened in 1925. It stands on the site of Priory buildings that where cleared in the Reformation 1540-50. Nelson Street was previously known as Lath(e) Street.
The Valiant Sailor reportedly takes its name from the actions of Jack Crawford during the Battle of Camperdown against the Dutch in 1797. In the 1950s, the house became the home of oil and watercolour painter Walter Dexter RBA (1876-1958). In 1971 Dr Elizabeth Harrison, King’s Lynn’s first female GP, purchased The Valiant Sailor and made it her home for 51 years, longer than anyone else in the house’s history.
Sunday 14 September
2 Nelson Street, King’s Lynn, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 5DX
Sun 14 Sep:1000-1600; Free Entry.
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