Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NW NORTH QUAY
839-1/12/244 (East side)
21/11/88 Nos.56 AND 57

GV II

Pair of houses with shops. C18, heightened in early C19 and
with C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond; No.57 has
been rendered. Slate roof with coped gables. 2 storey house,
heightened in early C19 to 3 storeys. Shops were inserted on
the ground floor, the early C20 shopfront to No.56 is part of
a large shopfront which extends across No.55 (qv).
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-window range, the end windows are
narrower, and the second floor end windows are blind. The 3
right hand bays have been rendered but the other windows have
flat brick arches, gauged on the first floor. Originally all
sashes but only those of the right hand 3 bays (No.57) are
C19; the others are C20 and the first floor windows have been
replaced by casements. 2 ground floor shop fronts; the left
hand part has early C20 shop which extends across No.55 to the
left; it has pilasters, a console and blind boxes. The right
hand shop to No.57 is late C20 with a high fascia.
INTERIOR: No.56 has lost most of its transverse partition
walls on ground and first floors but the spine wall survives
and there are sections of wall panelling surviving. Hardboard
cladding to walls and ceilings may conceal further original
features. The visible features include: cornices, dado rails,
window architraves, shutters and seats; in the ground floor
the bayed round-arched doorway.

Listing NGR: TG5209307718

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538453

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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