244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245814
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245814
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 244B, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
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:
- 244B, 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 52314 06828
Details
839-1/18/239 SOUTHTOWN ROAD 27-JUN-53 SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON (East side) 244B (Formerly listed as: SOUTHTOWN ROAD SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON SWIFTS STORE)
GV II
Also Known As: COLEMANS STORE, SOUTHTOWN ROAD, SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON Naval arsenal. 1806. By James Wyatt. Now used as light engineering works. This particular building was the actual armoury and had until 1829 a fireproof stone roof. Red brick. Roof now of graded Cumberland slate. 2 storeys. Rectangular block of 7 by 3 bays, the corner bays slightly brought. West front with a blind window to right and left and 5 arched recessed between. Centre recess now a doorway. 7 blocked first-floor windows. Gault brick eaves courses continue round building. Overhanging eaves developed at north and south gable-ends as pediments. North gable-end with stone surrounds to doors. East front with blind end bays opened with C20 casements. 5 arched recesses between, the centre one higher and fitted with a door and dated 1893.
INTERIOR: internal floor removed late C20. Roof of king-post trusses.
HISTORY: The most architecturally elaborate building on this site. 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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468640
- 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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