Ship Inn

The Ship Inn, located at No. 4 Greyfriar's Way in Great Yarmouth, is a former house dating from the late 17th century that was remodeled in the late 19th century as a public house and altered in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of brick and flint, with the south facade entirely in brick. It features a slate roof at the front and pantiles on the rest of the building.

The Ship Inn stands three storeys high with an attic and a basement, presenting a three-window range. The late 19th-century facade includes plate glass with a canted doorway at the left corner, supported by timber pilasters and topped with block entablatures and a dentil cornice. The first floor has three paired 6/6 horned sash windows set in rebuilt surrounds with gauged skewback arches, and remnants of three 17th-century pediments can be seen above. The second floor mirrors this with three similar sash windows. The gabled roof has an internal gable-end stack on the north side and a ridge stack to the right of center.

The southeast return was rebuilt in brick and flint in 1948 after bomb damage, featuring a timber doorway under a pediment, two 6/6 sash windows to the right, and a reused two-light mullioned attic window. The building is adorned with prominent modillion bargeboards. The northwest return has three blocked 17th-century windows and a two-light ovolo-moulded attic window. The rear elevation includes a two-storeyed pantiled cross-wing that extends to the right of a square stair turret topped with a hipped slate roof. To the left of the turret, partially obscured, are remains of a 17th-century window pediment, and the cross-wing has a partly external east stack.

Inside, the cellars contain some 17th-century brickwork. The main bar area has been opened up into one room, with the south end featuring a chamfered 17th-century bridging beam. The north end displays two sunk-quadrant late 17th-century bridging beams with barred tongue stops. A late 19th-century staircase showcases bulbous turned balusters and barleysugar balusters. An inserted corridor leads to the front range, which includes several sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beams. The main roof, rebuilt in the mid-20th century, has a concrete wall-plate, principals, collars, and butt purlins, reusing some 18th-century timbers.