1, 2 And 2B, South Quay

Three houses at 1, 2 and 2B South Quay, Great Yarmouth, were originally built in the very late 16th century, possibly around 1596. They were later converted into municipal offices in 1989. The front of the building was significantly altered in the mid-18th century with a red brick facade, and a 19th-century canted bay window was added to the right. The roof is now covered with 20th-century concrete pantiles.

The building has two storeys and a dormer attic, with an eight-window front. The two doorways on the right have six-panelled doors. The door to number 2 is set within early 19th-century panelled reveals and has an open pediment supported by engaged columns and a six-vaned fanlight. The door to number 2B also has panelled reveals and an open pediment above a cornice. The doorway to number 1 has been removed. To the left of the doors are three six-over-six sash windows with flush frames and gauged skewback arches, and a similar narrow four-over-four sash. A platband runs between the floors, with a moulded underside. Six six-over-six sash windows are on the first floor, also with gauged skewback arches, with a narrow four-over-four sash at either end; the sash at the extreme left has a blind upper window. The canted bay window extends through both storeys and has six-over-six sash windows under gauged skewback arches. A modillion and dentil eaves cornice runs along the top. The gabled roof has four gabled dormers fitted with 20th-century six-over-six sashes. A late 16th-century ridge stack is located left of centre, and an internal gable-end stack to the south, both featuring transverse plinths with twin octagonal flues. The north gable is rendered and shows the remains of an archway leading to Row 76. The rear has a three-storey cross-wing, rendered and whitewashed, with irregular placements of 19th and 20th-century sash windows.

The interiors have been combined with those of adjacent properties. The reception area, formerly in number 2, has a late 16th-century plaster ceiling divided by a plastered beam with sunk-quadrant mouldings. The central compartments feature roll-moulded ribs defining concave-sided octagons, each with foliage sprays, grounds, and jelly-mould pendants. The staircase to number 1 is 20th-century. The first-floor front room to number 2B also has a late 16th-century plaster ceiling with a single bridging beam. A grid of double-rolled ribs defines the plain square grounds, each containing a jelly-mould pendant with ballflower decoration. The adjacent room in number 2 features early 19th-century large-frame panelling and egg-and-dart cornices over three doors. The roof of the front range consists of chamfered tie beams, slightly cambered, and rebuilt in the mid-20th century.