Tennis Pavilion at Wellesley Recreation Ground is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 2000. Pavilion. 2 related planning applications.
Tennis Pavilion at Wellesley Recreation Ground
- WRENN ID
- strange-cobble-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 2000
- Type
- Pavilion
- Address
- Tennis Pavilion at Wellesley Recreation Ground, Wellesley Road, NR30 1EY
- OS grid reference
- TG 530 080
- Coordinates
- 52.61131, 1.73597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tennis Pavilion at Wellesley Recreation Ground is a building constructed in 1890 by J.W. Cockrill, the Borough Engineer. It is made of red brick with applied timber studs and rails that create rendered panels. The roof of the enclosed part is covered with machine tiles, while the verandah has a corrugated asbestos roof.
The pavilion has a rectangular plan with canted east and west ends, a central cross gable, and an open verandah to the north. It is a single-storey structure featuring a north elevation that has nine bays of open verandah. The central three bays project forward and are supported by square timber posts with solid scrolled braces and chamfered corners. The centre of the north elevation features a half-glazed double door flanked by fixed two-paned windows on either side, with a timbered gable above. Additionally, there are four-panelled doors on either side of the centre, also flanked by fixed two-paned windows. The canted ends each have three unhorned sash windows. At the rear, there is a gentlemen's public urinal made of glazed brick, topped with an acetate sheet roof, and a blocked doorway leading into the pavilion.
Inside, the pavilion consists of three rooms. The east and west rooms serve as changing rooms, with the west room featuring low lockers that double as bench seats, while the east room includes toilet facilities behind a modesty screen. Four-panelled doors connect to the centre room, which has a timber counter and a boarded-over communicating door into the west room. All rooms are lined with timber planks.
The pavilion is part of a group that includes the Grandstand and Ticket Office.
Local climate
Tennis Pavilion at Wellesley Recreation Ground 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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