Shadingfield Lodge

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5306NW SOUTH BEACH PARADE 839-1/20/161 (West side) 05/08/74 Shadingfield Lodge

GV II

House, now hotel. c1862-5. By AW Morant. Altered internally 1953 by AW Ecclestone. Gault brick under slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 6-window range in all. The east side has a 3-bay bow towards the north end and 3 bays of conventional walling towards the south. To south bays have 3 French doors giving on to the verandah, above are three 2/2 unhorned recessed sashes set under gauged skewback arches. The bow also has three 2/2 sashes to each floor under gauged skewback arches, the lower sashes dropping to the floor level. Clasping the entire east facade is a cast-iron verandah composed of paired lattice uprights rising to a pierced upper plate with a crested cornice. On this cornice is a convex sheet-metal canopy. Verandah stands on a stone balustrade. North return with 2 blind windows and two 2/2 upper sashes as before. Square entrance porch. Plaque records visits of Prince of Wales in 1872, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1887, 1895 and 1899. Rear service wing of 2 storeys in 4 bays, fitted with 2/2 unhorned sashes under gauged skewback arches as before. INTERIOR: service wing converted into bar in 1953 and oak chimney-piece moved from dining room: inverted tapering pilasters support overmantel of 2 paired columns framing a central fielded panel; carved frieze and cornice. Staircase with turned balusters and a wreathed handrail. East bar has a pair of fluted Ionic columns in antis added in 1953 when dividing wall was removed.

Listing NGR: TG5303406684