1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271609
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: 1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY
Statutory Address:: 1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271609
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:: 1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY
Statutory Address 1:: 1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, 2 AND 2B, SOUTH QUAY

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:: TG5233007372

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SW SOUTH QUAY 839-1/15/163 (East side) 27/06/53 Nos.1, 2 AND 2B

GV II

Marked on OS as Nos 1 and 1A. 3 houses, converted to municipal offices in 1989. Very late C16 (said to be 1596) with a mid C18 red brick facade and a C19 canted bay added to the right. Mid C20 concrete pantiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and dormer attic; 8-window range. There are 2 doorways to the right, both 6-panelled. The door to No.2 is set within early C19 panelled reveals behind an open pediment carried on a pair of engaged columns. 6-vaned fanlight. The door replaces a former window. The door to No.2B also has early C19 panelled reveals and an open pediment above a cornice. There is no door to No.1. To the left of the doors are three 6/6 sashes with flush frames and gauged skewback arches, and a similar narrow 4/4 sash. Platband between the floors with a moulded under surface. Six 6/6 first-floor sashes under gauged skewback arches as before and, at either end, a narrow 4/4 sash. The sash to the extreme left has a blind upper window. The canted bay window rises through both storeys and is illuminated through 6/6 sashes under gauged skewback arches. Modillion and dentil eaves cornice. Gabled roof with 4 gabled dormers fitted with 6/6 C20 sashes. Ridge stack left of centre and the internal gable-end stack to the south both are late C16 and both have transverse plinths carrying twin octagonal flues. The north gable is rendered and carries over the remains of the archway to Row 76. The rear has a 3-storey cross-wing rendered and whitewashed and pierced at irregular intervals by C19 and C20 sashes. INTERIOR: the 3 interiors have been knocked together with that to No.3 (qv). The entrance is from the door to the former No.2B. Reception area to left (formerly in No.2) has a late C16 plaster ceiling divided by a plastered beam with sunk-quadrant mouldings. The 4 main compartments of the design are defined by roll-moulded ribs, and each has a concave-sided octagon with the pointed tips elaborated into foliate sprays. In the centre of the octagons are foliage grounds and a short jelly-mould pendants. The staircase to No.1 is C20. The first-floor front room to No.2B has a late C16 plaster ceiling also. One plastered bridging beam with roll mouldings. There is a grid of double-rolled ribs defining plain square grounds in each of which is a jelly-mould pendant with ballflower decoration. The next room north (in No.2) has early C19

large-frame panelling and egg-and-dart cornices over all 3 doors. Front range roof of chamfered tie beams, slightly cambered, and rebuilt above in mid C20.

Listing NGR: TG5233007372

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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.