Workshop Range N of No. 244A

WORKSHOP RANGE N OF NO. 244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245811
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:
Workshop Range N of No. 244A
Statutory Address:
WORKSHOP RANGE N OF NO. 244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1245811
Date first listed:
05-Aug-1974
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:
Workshop Range N of No. 244A
Statutory Address 1:
WORKSHOP RANGE N OF NO. 244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WORKSHOP RANGE N OF NO. 244A, SOUTHTOWN 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:
TG 52303 06872

Details

839-1/18/238 SOUTHTOWN ROAD 05-AUG-74 SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON (East side) Workshop range N of No. 244A (Formerly listed as: SOUTHTOWN ROAD SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON 244A and adjoining workshop buildings)

GV II
Militia Barracks. 1853-5. Converted to light engineering works 1971. Red brick with Welsh slate roofs. U-shaped plan round a courtyard. One storey. Two sash windows remain to north side,otherwise fenestration is of late C20 casements. Gabled roof, hipped to ends. Internal plan opened out in C20.
HISTORY: The Lodges, Barrack Block, Armoury and Workshop survive from the original Board of Ordnance store of 1806-c1815, built to serve the fleet anchored in Yarmouth Roads during the war with France from 1793 to 1815. This was originally planned with parallel ranges of storehouses extending westwards from a quay on the River Yare to enclose a working area which included a small magazine. The probable designer was James Wyatt (1746-1813), Architect to the Board of Ordnance from 1782. One of two barrack blocks survive from its conversion into Militia Barracks in the 1850s, and further alterations to the site were made after its purchase by Coleman's (the food manufacturers) in the 1890s. Some of the Napoleonic buildings, including the storehouses and magazine, were destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.

(Adam Menuge and Andrew Williams, The Royal Ordnance Store, Great Yarmouth, RCHME, 1999 (NBR No. 44260)

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
468637
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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