REGENT BINGO HALL

REGENT BINGO HALL, 85-88, REGENT ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245987
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1982
List Entry Name:: REGENT BINGO HALL
Statutory Address:: REGENT BINGO HALL, 85-88, REGENT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1245987
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1982
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: REGENT BINGO HALL
Statutory Address 1:: REGENT BINGO HALL, 85-88, REGENT ROAD

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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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:: REGENT BINGO HALL, 85-88, REGENT 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:: TG5280307613

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NE REGENT ROAD 839-1/13/150 (South side) 21/10/82 Nos.85-88 (Consecutive) Regent Bingo Hall (Formerly Listed as: REGENT ROAD The Regent Cinema)

II

Cinema. 1914. By Francis Burdett Ward. For cinema magnate FH Cooper. Now a bingo hall and amusement arcade. Rendered, colourwashed and stuccoed brick and some artificial stone decoration. Roof not visible. EXTERIOR: 2-3 storeys; 6-window range. Facade with a wide central bay surmounted by a Diocletian window. To the right is a late C20 amusement arcade, to the left a tea rooms, the latter original but externally altered. Upper 2 floors articulated by a pair of giant columns with Ionic capitals standing on paired console brackets in the centre and 2 progressively narrower bays right and left separated by giant Ionic pilasters on bases. Between the columns are four 2-light casements below a frieze of artificial stone by Crotch & Son (of Norwich) depicting Comedy, Tragedy, owls, baskets of fruit, lyres and other theatrical impedimenta. The side bays have again paired 2-light casements, this time at a lower level and below stuccoed panels. Above are one oculi to the narrow outer bays and 2 oculi to the wider inner bays, all under artificial stone garlands. Crowning entablature to the composition now lost. INTERIOR: central marble steps lead to foyer. Inverted Imperial stairs with late C20 handrails. Rococo-style plasterwork in profusion, tending more to the Baroque in the coffered ceiling of the tea rooms. In the tea room also are depicted friezes of cherubs dragging swags and garlands. The auditorium has thin cast-iron columns supporting a wavy wall-plate under the 3 principal boxes right and left. A wide segmental arch supports the main balcony. At intervals gilt putti playing pan-pipes and trumpets are depicted in relief. Above the boxes are 5 basket arches on columns, and above these are oculi decorated and linked with garlands. Proscenium arch to the stage remains as do dressing rooms.

Listing NGR: TG5280307613

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Legacy System number:: 468596
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.