245, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
245, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245815
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 245, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 245, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245815
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- 245, SOUTHTOWN ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 245, 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:
- 245, 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 52280 06827
Details
839-1/18/240 SOUTHTOWN ROAD 27-JUN-53 SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON (East side) 245
GV II
North Lodge to former naval arsenal, shown as 'Clerk of the Cheques' House' in 1810 and built in a matching style to No. 244 (qv). 1806-10, by James Wyatt for the Ordnance Board. Altered probably in 1891 when site relinquished by Admiralty for commercial use. Red brick. Slate roofs, the west slope of graded Cumberland slate, otherwise Welsh. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. Plan is of a 2-bay block facing the road with a 3-bay wing extending east behind at right angles. This wing is a late C19 addition. West front with 2 late C19 tripartite horned sashes to ground floor and 2 plain horned sashes to first floor, all without glazing bars. Gault brick eaves course. Deep modillion eaves cornice below gabled roof. Rebuilt internal gable-end stacks north and south. Rebated entrance door in south gable under a round arch. One blind window each floor left and 3 horned sashes without glazing bars to remainder of gable. Gault brick eaves cornice continues under a deep modillion pedimented gable-end. Three 1/1 horned sashes under gauged skewback arches to each floor of the rear wing. 2 multiply-flued ridge stacks with star tops.
INTERIOR: main ground-floor rooms with 6-panelled doors and reveals. Late C19 open-string staircase with 2 square tapered balusters per tread, turned newels and moulded handrails.
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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468641
- 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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