Hall Quay Club

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NW HALL QUAY 839-1/12/41 (North side) 27/06/53 Nos.4 AND 5 Hall Quay Club

GV II

Club and restaurant. On site of house built in 1671 for Daniel Sheppard, used by John Lacon in 1760s as his town house. Rebuilt mid C19, used as Conservative Club 1880s to 1987. Additions C20. Stuccoed and colourwashed brick. Roofs with black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 3 distinct elements: central 3-storey, 5-window range; bow window to east; 2-storey, 3-window addition to west. Central block with rusticated ground floor fitted with two 2/4 late C20 horned sashes either side of doorway. Covered and glazed extended porch extends to street line terminating in a gabled front. First and second floors with five 2/2 horned sashes under hoods. The centre windows to each floor have segmental heads and hoods. Console course under parapet. Gabled roof. To east is a 2-storey bow window with three 9/6 horned sashes to each floor. Ground-floor sashes with hoods on brackets, those to first floor with pediments. Console course under eaves. To west is a 2-storey addition of C20: door to left has a 5-vaned fanlight under an open pediment on plain pilasters. Two 6/6 sashes left and 3 to first floor. Parapet with 3 blind panels. INTERIOR: principal ground-floor doors have 6 fielded panels and egg-and-dart surrounds. West ground-floor room with wide C19 panelling and a dentilled cornice. Open string staircase of c1740: 3 balusters per tread alternating as turned and twisted. Ramped and wreathed handrail. First-floor room extends width of centre block and rises through 2 storeys, the second-floor windows blocked inside.

Listing NGR: TG5216007618