Great Yarmouth Potteries
Great Yarmouth Potteries, Trinity Place, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245561
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Great Yarmouth Potteries
- Statutory Address:
- Great Yarmouth Potteries, Trinity Place, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245561
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Great Yarmouth Potteries
- Statutory Address 1:
- Great Yarmouth Potteries, Trinity Place, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3HA
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:
- Great Yarmouth Potteries, Trinity Place, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3HA
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:
- TG5272606901
Details
TG5206NE
839-1/19/193
GREAT YARMOUTH
TRINITY PLACE (East side)
Great Yarmouth Potteries
(Formerly Listed as: TRINITY PLACE, Fish Curing House)
09/12/76
II*
Fish curing works, now pottery. Early C19. Built against town walls of 1285-95 to east. Brick, Quaternary and Quarry flint and chert, with timber interior partitioning. Pantile roofs. Three distinct elements.
EXTERIOR: two-storey southern range is former stables with hay-loft over. A lean-to brick and pantiled outbuilding against wall projecting west to street front forms a courtyard. Central door under sloping hood. Casement to its left and two windows to first floor. East wall of medieval date with two, and to north end remains of a third, C13 brick and flint buttresses. One inserted ship's mast rises through both storeys. Central range contains gutting house with a courtyard, the yard formed by weatherboarded lean-to buildings with brick end-gables. Main block itself leans against medieval town walls. South lean-to was sales office with a central passage to stable yard incorporating ledger room. North lean-to was storage area now containing pottery kilns. Upper floor retains passage with five doors into smoke chambers and lit through one late C13 splayed lancet at east end. West front of gutting house weatherboarded with C20 ground-floor window and doorway.
INTERIOR: now a coffee shop (ground floor) and a pottery shop (first floor). Original gutting house retains well and subterranean brine tanks. Rafter and purlin roof with tie beams and much timber partitioning including salvaged marine timbers. North range is smokehouse. Brick with pantiled gabled roof. Tall, single-storeyed. East side lit through five windows under eaves. North side lit through four sloping dormers. Plain gabled west side. East side contiguous with town walls with flint and brick gable-head. Roof ridge with 12 smoke louvres. Smoke house has five double smoke bays entered through one timber door to ground floor. Brick dado carries timber racks & loves extending to roof. Brick floor. Evidence of earlier brick and flint structure on site. Five loading doors at first-floor level entered from lean-to to south. Continuous roof of common rafters and continuous purlins. East bay without racks and loves, its east wall C13 and lit through a splayed lancet. Two gargoyles probably from house of the Blackfriars.
Listing NGR: TG5272606901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468651
- 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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