Grandstand at Wellesley Recreation Ground
GRANDSTAND AT WELLESLEY RECREATION GROUND, WELLESLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380279
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Grandstand at Wellesley Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address:
- GRANDSTAND AT WELLESLEY RECREATION GROUND, WELLESLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380279
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Grandstand at Wellesley Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRANDSTAND AT WELLESLEY RECREATION GROUND, WELLESLEY ROAD
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:
- GRANDSTAND AT WELLESLEY RECREATION GROUND, WELLESLEY 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:
- TG 53098 08202
Details
TG5208 WELLESLEY ROAD 839-1/5/10004 Grandstand at Wellesley Recreation 02-MAY-00 Ground
GV II
Football grandstand. 1890-1 by J.W. Cockrill, the Borough Engineer. Brick ground floor with timber superstructure; asbestos clad roof of 1953. EXTERIOR: west elevation of 12 bays of canopy above brick ground floor. Ground floor with central brick and concrete steps flanked by one canted bay window right and left, each bay with half-glazed double doors and 3-paned fixed windows. 9 cast-iron windows at intervals, those either side of south canted bay circular (the south one boarded over), the remainder oval. Brickwork with square billet ornament at top. Superstructure in form of open grandstand with raking terrace platform. 12 open bays defined by square timber posts with feathered chamfers, and with moulded capitals and stopped bases. Each post with passing brace to east, and 3 scrolled braces to other directions. Scalloped and pierced fasia board. Central gable with elliptical insert with decoratively pierced tympanum. Clock of 1896 by E. Green of Yarmouth. North and south returns with double timber doors to ground floor under 5-vaned fanlights and 2 segmental openings above, those to the west open, to the east with timber panelling below 5-vaned fanlights. Gable heads each with decoratively pierced semi-elliptical boarding. Rear (east) elevation consists of 12 bays of twin round-headed lancets with flat buttresses between each pair. Common stringcourse. Grandstand stage with braced timber panels. INTERIOR: grandstand with roof of 13 king-post trusses and diagonal horizontal braces between the posts. Ground floor with timber-lined changing rooms, showers and toilets. Longitudinal passage running between doors in gable ends, on the west side of which are cast-iron columns. HISTORY: possibly the earliest football grandstand surviving in England. Forms a group with the Tennis Pavilion (qv) and Ticket Office(qv).
Listing NGR: TG5309808202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 480125
- 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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