Greyfriars House
Greyfriars House, Greyfriars Way, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2QE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096835
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars House
- Statutory Address:
- Greyfriars House, Greyfriars Way, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2QE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096835
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Greyfriars House, Greyfriars Way, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2QE
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:
- Greyfriars House, Greyfriars Way, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2QE
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:
- TG 52394 07414
Details
TG5207SW
839-1/15/39
GREAT YARMOUTH
GREYFRIAR'S WAY (North East side)
Greyfriars House
(Formerly Listed as: GREYFRIARS WAY (North East side), Congregational Church)
05/08/74
GV
II
Formerly known as: Congregational Church MIDDLEGATE STREET.
Middlegate Congregational Church, now offices. 1870. By JT Bottle. Converted to municipal offices in 1990 by Peter Codling. Cut Quarry and Quaternary flint with Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, aisles, transepts and chancel.
EXTERIOR: the west front has the gabled nave and aisles separated by buttresses rising to pointed finials. Two arched west doors, now glazed, with the doors used internally as shutters. Arched doorway to the aisles also. Five-light west window in geometric style under a flushwork arch. To the right and left returns of the aisles is a projecting staircase turret with a band of encircled quatrefoils. Four aisle bays defined by stepped buttresses and pierced by two and three-light windows. On the south side is a door of 1990. Eight paired clerestory windows. The roof has acquired velux roof lights. The transepts are blind to the west except for an arcade of shallow niches but terminate in their gables ends with large rose windows above a continuing arcade of niches. The east end has a semicircular projection marking the sanctuary dome and several inserted windows.
INTERIOR: divided into offices and floored. The arcade posts are circular. The transept crossing arches are elaborated roof trusses: arched braces with traceried spandrels. Crown post roof to the west end, the east end has the posts removed.
Listing NGR: TG5237907387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468473
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 12 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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