13 And 14, Market Place

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NW MARKET PLACE 839-1/12/101 (West side) 05/08/74 Nos.13 AND 14

GV II

House, now shop. c1750, re-fronted 1903, converted to a shop C20, present shop front added 1960s, rear range added 1976 and altered internally. Original house was one room deep with a cross-wing running west from the south end. Rendered and colourwashed red brick. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 4-window range. Plate-glass display windows with central door and prominent fascia board. First floor with 2 late C20 12/12 sashes and a late C20 canted bay fitted with 6/6 and 9/9 sashes (replacing a C19 bay). Second floor with four 8/8 C20 sashes. All windows with stucco surrounds. Parapet and hipped roof, probably of slate. INTERIOR: ground floor is an open display area. First floor north room has Adamesque plaster decoration of 1903. South room opens off the former staircase landing through a doorway set in an eared surround under a broken pediment. A similar doorway opens into the rear room in the former cross-wing. Front room with an acanthus and modillion plaster cornice. The mid C18 staircase survives from first to second floor only: open string, 3 turned balusters on gadrooned vases per tread, moulded ramped handrail on turned newels. Stairwell with an egg-and-dart cornice. Roof of 2 tiers of taper-tenoned butt purlins and collars.

Listing NGR: TG5237707804