Norfolk Street, from Broad Street in the west to Littleport Bridge in the east, is one of a number of urban streets in England which is known to have been built up in a very similar manner as today from at least the 13th Century.The architecture of the shops which line it now is predominantly late 18th and 19th Century, with a number of post-war infill developments often amalgamating one or more of the original plots, but the pattern of plots is readily identifiable. Moreover, the nature of the buildings has remained consistent over the centuries, displaying only an expansion in the number of commercial properties over domestic ones, a development which accelerated after the mid 19th Century

The early 18th Century Nos. 117 & 118, on the north side west of Albert Street, is possibly one of the last timber-framed houses built in Lynn, disguised by a typical early 19th Century brown brick façade.