Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum, located on Marine Parade in Great Yarmouth, was originally built in 1858 by A.W. Morant as a home for shipwrecked sailors and was converted into a maritime museum between 1965 and 1967. The building features an Italianate style, constructed from Gault brick with red brick banding and dressings, topped with a slate roof.

The exterior consists of three storeys and a basement, arranged in a three-window range. The ground floor is rusticated and stuccoed, featuring two 2/2 unhorned sash windows set within architraves adorned with laurel-leaf trails, and sills supported by console brackets. To the right, there is a five-panelled door sheltered by a hood on scrolled brackets. The first floor has three 2/2 unhorned sash windows with arched heads and continuous cable mouldings, separated by paired pilasters. The parapet is decorated with four terracotta consoles above each window, a dentil cornice, and a central clock set within a segmental pediment on volutes. The roof is a low hipped design, with the north and south returns mirroring the main façade in a five-window range. The rear of the building features a one-storey addition from 1908, which is also stuccoed and rusticated, with sash windows and a doorway on the south side.

Inside, the ground floor rooms have sunk-quadrant bridging beams. The original exterior wall at the rear has been converted into an internal wall, retaining its central sash window, while the outer windows have been changed into doors. The staircase is notable for its two turned balusters on each tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail.