The Nelson Hotel
The Nelson Hotel, 1, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3AG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246583
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Nelson Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- The Nelson Hotel, 1, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3AG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246583
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jun-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- The Nelson Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Nelson Hotel, 1, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3AG
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:
- The Nelson Hotel, 1, Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth, NR30 3AG
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:
- TG5305206873
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 August 2024 to update the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
TG5306NW
TG5306NW
839-1/20/90
GREAT YARMOUTH
MARINE PARADE (west side)
No.1, The Nelson Hotel
(Formerly listed as No.1, Cavendish Hotel, previously listed as: Cavendish Hotel, MARINE PARADE)
27/06/53
GV
II
Formerly known as: Brandon Mansions Hotel MARINE PARADE. Terrace of houses. 1844. By Farrants & Turrell. Converted to a hotel. Stuccoed brick. Roofs of slate and concrete tiles.
EXTERIOR: south front is a fourteen-window range, the centre ten of three storeys and dormer attic, the two side right and left of four storeys and broken forward slightly. Rusticated ground floor fitted with sash windows, most of which have lost their central glazing bars. The extreme end windows on all four floors are tripartite. Two hotel entrances. At first floor is a cast-iron balcony running into returns. French doors under stuccoed patches marking former existence of pediments. Platband at second floor. Second floor sashes with six/six glazing bars. Former cornice above survives only as a short length over western two bays. Mansard roof with ten flat-topped dormers, all with C20 casements. Hipped roofs over end pavilions. Four transverse stacks and one stack to each end pavilion. Western four bays have a cast-iron ground and first floor balcony under a bowed canopy. East return in five bays. Ground floor altered C20 by provision of external staircases and insertion of plate-glass windows. Upper windows as south front.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: TG5305206872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468538
- 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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