Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices

21, South Quay, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2RG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245801
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices
Statutory Address:: 21, South Quay, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2RG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245801
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices
Statutory Address 1:: 21, South Quay, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2RG

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 21, South Quay, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2RG

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 52411 07225

Details

TG5207SW 839-1/15/176

GREAT YARMOUTH SOUTH QUAY (North East side) No.21 Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices

05/08/74

GV II

Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices. 1909. By Olley & Haward. Red brick with a knapped Quarry and Quaternary flint facade dressed with Lincolnshire Limestone. Slate roofs.

EXTERIOR: three-storey facade rising to a gable facing the street. Three-window range. Central narrow entrance bay under a hood on brackets and an arched head. One arched window right and left. Frieze above has the legend: `Port and Haven Commissioners' Offices'. First floor with three cross casements with keystones set within segmental heads. Attic storey with a tripartite casement, the central window having a segmental arch over it. The gable-head is of chequered stone and flint and rises to an arched apex with the date 1909 and a relief representation of a steamship. The main gable behind has a north and south gable-end stack. South return wall of C16 brick.

INTERIOR: ground floor front offices with glass and timber partitions, including the cash office for payment of port dues. Staircase in Jacobean style with a closed string, splat balusters and moulded square newels. First-floor front room is boardroom: small-framed panelling and a ribbed plaster ceiling of simple geometric patterns.

Listing NGR: TG5240407242

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British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 12 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.