Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms
MASONIC ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, SOUTH BEACH PARADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271606
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- MASONIC ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, SOUTH BEACH PARADE
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- Date:
- 2002-08-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/07974/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271606
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Feb-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONIC ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, SOUTH BEACH PARADE
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:
- MASONIC ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, SOUTH BEACH PARADE
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 53006 06732
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5306NW SOUTH BEACH PARADE 839-1/20/160 (West side) 05/08/74 Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms (Formerly Listed as: KIMBERLEY TERRACE South Beach Parade Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms)
GV II
Assembly rooms. 1863. By HH Collins. Partly burnt out 1870 and became the masonic lodge under patronage of HRH Prince of Wales. Gault brick. Slate roofs. 2 storeys. Hipped block with 5 blind arched windows. Stacks on north and south slopes. Set in front is an arcade of 5 bays on Tuscan order columns, the outer bays filled in 1930s to provide storage rooms. Right and left are single-storey extensions each with a canted window bay facing east. Triple arcade on square piers to north return leads to main doorway. INTERIOR: main room occupies entire central block and rises through both storeys. 5 by 3 bays. Tuscan order pilasters with egg-and-dart decoration to capitals rise to an entablature with a plain frieze. Above the cornice are blind semicircular arches corresponding to the blind windows. Curved brackets rise from the cornice to the panelled plaster ceiling which has fleur-de-lys roses and short pendants. Balcony runs along west side with a cast-iron balustrade.
Listing NGR: TG5300606732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468611
- 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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