UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A

UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393268
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A
Statutory Address:: UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393268
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1998
List Entry Name:: UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A
Statutory Address 1:: UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A, SOUTHTOWN ROAD

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.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: UTILITY BLOCK IMMEDIATELY EAST OF NO.244A, SOUTHTOWN 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 52313 06850

Details

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206NW SOUTHTOWN ROAD 839-1/18/237 SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON 05-AUG-74 (East side) Utility block immediately east of No.2 44A (Formerly listed as: SOUTHTOWN ROAD SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON No.244a and adjoining workshop buildin gs)

GV II

Also Known As: Offices to the north of Coleman's Store, SOUTHTOWN ROAD, SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON Smithy and carpenters' shop. 1806-1810 (shown on a map of 1810), to designs of James Wyatt for the Ordnance Board. Converted to light engineering works 1971. Red brick with Cumberland slate roofs. One storey. 3 x 5 bays. To south face is a central semi-circular ached entrance flanked either side by two 3/6-pane unhorned sashes with gauged skewback arches. Dentil eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Interior: plain. HISTORY: The Lodges, Barrack Block, Armoury and Workshop survive from the original Board of Ordnance store of 1806-c1815, built to serve the fleet anchored in Yarmouth Roads during the war with France from 1793 to 1815. This was originally planned with parallel ranges of storehouses extending westwards from a quay on the River Yare to enclose a working area which included a small magazine. The probable designer was James Wyatt (1746-1813), Architect to the Board of Ordnance from 1782. One of two barrack blocks survive from its conversion into Militia Barracks in the 1850s, and further alterations to the site were made after its purchase by Coleman's (the food manufacturers) in the 1890s. Some of the Napoleonic buildings, including the storehouses and magazine, were destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.

(Adam Menuge and Andrew Williams, The Royal Ordnance Store, Great Yarmouth, RCHME, 1999 (NBR No. 44260)

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 499967
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.