Description

YARMOUTH

SZ3589 THE SQUARE
1354-0/10/400 (West side)
18/01/67 Jireh House

GV II

Tea Rooms and Guest House, at one time a public house. Late
C16 in origin, altered in early C19. Built of stone rubble
with ashlar quoins, heightened in cement rendering to front
and old brickwork to other elevations. Slate roof with end
brick chimneystack. 2 storeys 4 windows, mainly C19 casements.
Ground floor has 3 stone relieving arches, 2 16-pane sashes
and 1 20-pane sash in moulded architraves. Early C19 doorcase
has pilasters and 6 reeded panels. Right side elevation has
plinth and blocked-in light to gable. C19 brick and slate
extension to rear. Tea room on ground floor right has late C16
four centred stone arched chimneypiece with blank spandrels.
C16 and C17 plank and muntin screen divides tea room from
hall. Hall has axial beam chamfered with lambs tongue stop and
decorative top to upright post with carving of apples and
pears. Early C19 curved staircase with scrolled tread ends and
2 turned balusters to each step and 2 round-headed alcoves.
1st floor has ovolo-moulded beam with lambs tongue stop. Roof
has principal rafters and clasped purlins and collar beam
removed.

Listing NGR: SZ3542789698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504502

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)