Maritime Museum

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5307SW MARINE PARADE 839-1/17/92 (West side) 15/02/90 No.25 Maritime Museum (Formerly Listed as: MARINE PARADE The Maritime Museum)

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Home for shipwrecked sailors, converted to a maritime museum in 1965-67. 1858. By AW Morant, extended to the west in 1908 by Olley & Haward. Italianate. Gault brick banded with red brick and with red brick dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement; 3-window range. Rusticated and stuccoed ground floor with two 2/2 unhorned sashes set within architraves decorated with laurel-leaf trails. Sills on console brackets. 5-panelled door to the right under a hood on scrolled brackets. The panelled aprons of the three 2/2 unhorned first-floor sashes are set within a broad string course. The windows have arched heads with continuous cable mouldings. Three 2/2 unhorned sashes to the first floor with paired pilasters between each one. The parapet has 4 terracotta consoles over each window, a dentil cornice and a central clock set within a segmental pediment on volutes. Set-back low hipped roof. The north and south returns are of the same design, 5-window ranges. To the rear (west) is the 1908 addition: one storey, stuccoed and rusticated, sashes and a doorway to the south. INTERIOR: the ground floor rooms have sunk-quadrant bridging beams. At the rear the original exterior wall is now an internal wall, complete with its centre sash, the outer ones now converted to doors. The staircase has 2 turned balusters to each tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail. (Illustrated London News: 19 October 1861: London).

Listing NGR: TG5307607201