Custom House
CUSTOM HOUSE, 20, SOUTH QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245800
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, 20, SOUTH QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1245800
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Custom House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, 20, SOUTH QUAY
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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:
- CUSTOM HOUSE, 20, SOUTH QUAY
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 52406 07236
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5207SW SOUTH QUAY 839-1/15/175 (North East side) 05/08/74 No.20 Custom House
GV II*
House. 1720. For John Andrews, a very important herring merchant. Bought 1802 by H.M. Government for use as a Custom's House, sold 1986 to Port of Yarmouth Commissioners. Red brick laid in Flemish bond with stone quoins and dressings. Slate roof. Single-pile plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on a basement; 8-window range in all. Central double doors occupying 2 window bays with an early C19 porch on a pair of Greek Doric columns. Basement and all other windows under segmental stone arches with keystones. Ground and first-floor horned sashes with 9/9 glazing bars; 6/6 second-floor horned sashes. Parapet partly conceals shallow-pitched gabled roof. Pair of stacks on rear wall plane. To right and left of facade is a narrow bay with an arched entrance to Row 103 (north) and Row 104 (south). Above is one 9/9 sash as before. Rear with a 2-storey outshut and a 2-storey gabled rear extension. INTERIOR: entrance hall with large-framed panelling to north side. Open-string staircase with 3 balusters per tread: a turned baluster separating an iron-twist and a barleysugar baluster. Carved floral tread-ends and a moulded ramped and wreathed handrail. Main north room on ground floor has a bolection-moulded fireplace and large-framed panelling all round. Corresponding south room with an C18 rosette and dart surround to the C20 tile fireplace. Large-framed panelling and a moulded cornice . North attic room with re-used C17 small-framed panelling. C19 roof of common rafters, a purlin and collars.
Listing NGR: TG5240407242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468626
- 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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