Friends Meeting House Including Burial Ground Walls
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE INCLUDING BURIAL GROUND WALLS, 17, HOWARD STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271267
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House Including Burial Ground Walls
- Statutory Address:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE INCLUDING BURIAL GROUND WALLS, 17, HOWARD STREET SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271267
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House Including Burial Ground Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE INCLUDING BURIAL GROUND WALLS, 17, HOWARD STREET SOUTH
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:
- FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE INCLUDING BURIAL GROUND WALLS, 17, HOWARD STREET SOUTH
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:
- TG5233307543
Details
TG5207NW
839-1/12/53
GREAT YARMOUTH,
HOWARD STREET SOUTH (East side),
No.17
Friends Meeting House including burial ground walls
05/08/74
II
Friends' meeting house. 1692. Rebuilt 1807, on the site of a
cell of the Augustinian Priory of Gorleston and re-using some
material. Rendered and colourwashed brick under a pantiled
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. West facade with a plinth course and a
6-panelled door to the right under a plain overlight. Two 6/6
horned sashes under segmental heads are set to left at upper
level and there are 3 ventilation grilles to the cellar. North
return with a cellar grille also and a 6/6 upper sash. South
return also with a cellar grille, and, in the apex of the
gable, a late C20 3/3 horned sash. To the right is half of a
rebated stone arch probably of C15 origin surviving from
earlier building. Gabled roof with rebuilt stack on west
slope.
INTERIOR: main hall with a plank dado and a raised bench to
the north end with a panelled screen. At south end is a
panelled balcony, now blocked, but with 4 rows of benches
behind it at first-floor level. Roof of C20 principals
carrying purlins. Undercroft opened out 1979-81. 1807 floor
beams overhead. 1979 cast-iron columns and rolled steel
joists. West wall with 4 C15 splayed window embrasures with
stone jambs and sloping sills. Walls of flint and brick.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: 3 ranges of wall enclose a burial ground
to east. North range of flint and brick with rendered coping,
east range of brick is rendered over, south range of coursed
flints.
(Edwin R: Archive at Norfolk Archaeology Unit).
Listing NGR: TG5233307543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468496
- 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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