Working Mens Club

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE KING STREET 839-1/16/63 (East side) 27/06/53 No.51 Working Mens' Club

GV II

House. c1770. Working men's club since 1921. Altered internally 1950s and mid 1970s. Red brick. Roof of C20 interlocking tiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 5-window range. Rusticated quoins and platbands between the floors. Central doorway with a rusticated stucco surround and a short hood. Door reveals with incised panelling. Door is 4-panelled and with 2 central roundels under a geometric overlight. The sashes have 6/6 glazing bars to ground and first floors and 6/3 glazing bars to second floor, all under gauged skewback arches and all in flush frames, the boxes of which are recessed. Central first and second-floor sashes are arched and set within rusticated brick surrounds with keyblocks. Ovolo-moulded brick eaves cornice under a rebuilt parapet. Gabled roof. Truncated internal gable-end stack to north. Large late C20 rear extensions in concrete and grey brick. INTERIOR: nearly all features of interest including staircase removed in 1950s and 1970s. Most of interior partition walls removed and all 3 floors opened out into single large rooms. At north end the winder staircase to attic survives. Roof of principals, 2 tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars. Cellar has 5 barrel vaults running east-west and blocked steps up to King Street.

Listing NGR: TG5266007161