Working Mens Club is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1953. House. 2 related planning applications.
Working Mens Club
- WRENN ID
- upper-casement-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Working Mens Club, 51, King Street, NR30 2PW
- OS grid reference
- TG 526 071
- Coordinates
- 52.60345, 1.72992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Working Men's Club is a house built around 1770, which has served as a working men's club since 1921. The building has undergone internal alterations in the 1950s and mid-1970s. It is constructed of red brick and features a roof made of 20th-century interlocking tiles.
The exterior is three stories tall with a five-window range. It has rusticated quoins and platbands between the floors. The central doorway is framed by a rusticated stucco surround and has a short hood above it. The door reveals are decorated with incised panelling, and the door itself is four-panelled with two central roundels beneath a geometric overlight. The sash windows on the ground and first floors have 6/6 glazing bars, while those on the second floor have 6/3 glazing bars. All windows are set under gauged skewback arches and are in flush frames with recessed boxes. The central sashes on the first and second floors are arched and framed by rusticated brick surrounds with keyblocks. An ovolo-moulded brick eaves cornice sits beneath a rebuilt parapet, and the building has a gabled roof with a truncated internal gable-end stack to the north. There are large late 20th-century rear extensions made of concrete and grey brick.
Inside, nearly all features of interest have been removed, including the staircase, which was taken out in the 1950s and 1970s. Most of the interior partition walls have also been removed, resulting in all three floors being opened up into large single rooms. However, a winder staircase leading to the attic remains at the north end. The roof structure includes principals, two tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins, and collars. The cellar contains five barrel vaults running east-west and has blocked steps leading up to King Street.
Local climate
Working Mens Club receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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