College of Art and Design Including Railings to East and North is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1990. School. 9 related planning applications.

College of Art and Design Including Railings to East and North

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Great Yarmouth
Constituency
Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1990
Type
School
Address
College of Art and Design Including Railings to East and North, Nelson Road
OS grid reference
TG 528 073
Coordinates
52.60528, 1.73248
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The College of Art and Design, built in 1912 by JW Cockrill, is a school of art located in Great Yarmouth. It features a steel frame with red brick cladding and terracotta details, standing two storeys high with a basement. The east-facing facade has a three-window range, with polygonal turrets at the corners that have terracotta panels marking the divisions of the storeys and terracotta sills beneath the windows. The central entrance is deeply recessed and includes doors beneath a Diocletian window, all set within a coffered round-arched recess. This arch is supported by a triglyph frieze and entablature on four unfluted Roman Doric columns. There are five-light leaded cross casements on either side of the entrance and three on the first floor. The pilasters flanking the central bay rise to a raised parapet, which is topped with bulbous terracotta finials. The north side of the building features a four-window range, with each window divided by polygonal turrets that have similar terracotta details and finials. Inside, there is a staircase with wrought-iron balusters supporting a rounded handrail. The building also includes wrought-iron railings along the east and north sides, adorned with minor Art Deco scrolled finials.

Local climate

College of Art and Design Including Railings to East and North 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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