Tower Fish Curing Works
TOWER FISH CURING WORKS, 16, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096791
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Fish Curing Works
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER FISH CURING WORKS, 16, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096791
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Fish Curing Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER FISH CURING WORKS, 16, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER FISH CURING WORKS, 16, BLACKFRIARS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG5276806977
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5206NE BLACKFRIARS ROAD
839-1/19/4 (East side)
24/07/89 No.16
Tower Fish Curing Works
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKFRIARS ROAD
Tower Fish Curing Works)
II
Fish curing works. 1880. Red brick with some stone to the
south and east ranges. Pantiled and slate roofs. Triangular
site with 3 ranges of buildings round a yard. Manager's house
and office occupies the west end of the north range. House in
2 storeys. 3-bay north front with a central door under a
segmental head flanked either side by a 2/2 horned sash also
with segmental heads. String courses at first floor which has
three 2/2 horned sashes. Hipped roof with a central stack.
West return of 2 bays, with two 2/2 horned sashes each floor.
Terracotta plaque at first-floor level bears legend: `J.R.N.
Tower Curing Works 1880'. Terracotta rosette and egg-and-dart
decorative plaques. Long north range has a higher gabled roof.
Paired and tripled segmental windows to ground floor with
internal shutters. Immediately above are single swivel vents
and under eaves are paired shuttered vents again. Ventilators
on roof ridge. 2-storeyed ranges on east and south sides have
painted ground floors and rendered upper floors. Gabled roofs
at various levels. Windows and loading doors at first floor
and some to ground floor. Loading doorways in the central
yard.
INTERIOR: north range with racks and loves in 3 and 5 bays,
with access from ground and first floors. Brine tanks intact.
Listing NGR: TG5276806977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468428
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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