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4, South Quay

A Grade I Listed Building in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

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Latitude: 52.6054 / 52°36'19"N

Longitude: 1.7255 / 1°43'31"E

OS Eastings: 652352

OS Northings: 307360

OS Grid: TG523073

Mapcode National: GBR YQY.R1G

Mapcode Global: WHNVZ.GSX1

Plus Code: 9F43JP4G+46

Entry Name: 4, South Quay

Listing Date: 27 June 1953

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1271611

English Heritage Legacy ID: 468616

Also known as: Elizabethan House Museum

ID on this website: 101271611

Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30

County: Norfolk

District: Great Yarmouth

Electoral Ward/Division: Nelson

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Great Yarmouth

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Great Yarmouth

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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Description



GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SW SOUTH QUAY
839-1/15/165 (East side)
27/06/53 No.4

GV I

House, now museum. Built as a smaller house in 1596 for
Benjamin Cooper, expanded into a courtyard house (in addition
to No.3 (qv)) 1603-10. Alterations early C18, refronted early
C19, restored 1833. Gault brick facade, red brick elsewhere.
Pantiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: facade of two 1/2 storeys in 6-window range.
Panelled door under an overlight with a porch supported on a
pair of Roman Doric columns. Windows are 6/6 unhorned sashes
under gauged skewback arches. Top floor with blind windows
added in 1809. First-floor windows with iron balconies. Gabled
roof with a ridge stack to left of centre. Round arch to right
leads to Row 83. South return along Row 83 of 2 storeys and
dormer attic. Red and yellow brick. Ground floor with a
5-light mullioned window renewed C19 and an early C17 6-light
ovolo-moulded mullioned window with a central king mullion.
Arched staircase window. Mansard roof with 3 mid C20 sloping
dormers. East gable rebuilt by National Trust after 1943.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with large-framed panelling of c1730.
South front room sub-divided in C19, but retains cruciform
bridging beams with sunk-quadrant mouldings. Dining room to
north with small-framed panelling with reeded and fluted Ionic
pilasters. Oak chimney-piece with a 3-bay arcaded overmantel
and initials and date: C over B A (Benjamin and Anne Cooper).
Storeroom to east has one unfluted Ionic column which
represents only remains of an open courtyard loggia. Staircase
of 1809 with turned balusters, ramped and wreathed handrail
and a Chinese-pattern late C18 dog gate.
Kitchen in rear wing with small-framed panelling and, in the
north wall, a C13 double trefoiled aumbry taken probably from
the Greyfriars. Courtyard side lit through a 6-light
ovolo-moulded mullioned window with a central king mullion.
Rear kitchen further east with sunk-quadrant bridging beams.
Drawing room on first floor at front. Continuous arcaded
panelling with fluted pilasters. Chimney-piece with 2 tiers of
paired Corinthian columns, at the upper level framing 3
arcaded panels. In the centre the Arms of James I. Plastered
ceiling of c1600: high-relief ribs in a pattern of squares
with concave sides twisting round each other and developing
short pendants. Lower relief vine decoration. Room to north
with small-framed panelling and an early C17 chimney-piece: 3


arcaded panels separated by reeded and fluted Corinthian
columns. Initials C over B A. Upper rear corridor with two
3-light C17 cross casements with roundels of painted Flemish
glass dated 1612. Roof with arched braces to tie beams, 2
tiers of butt purlins, curved windbraces and plain collars.

Listing NGR: TG5235207360

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