Clifton House and Tower
Clifton House, 17 Queen Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1HT
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.
Clifton House, 17 Queen Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk, PE30 1HT
Not good for disabled visitors or wheelchairs.