College Of Art And Design Including Railings To East And North

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE NELSON ROAD 839-1/16/122 (West side) 26/06/90 College of Art and Design including railings to east and north

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School of Art. 1912. By JW Cockrill. Steel frame with red brick cladding and terracotta details. 2 storeys on a basement. Facade faces east, a 3-window range. The corners have polygonal turrets with terracotta panels at the divisions of the storeys and terracotta sills to the windows. Deeply recessed central doors under a Diocletian window, all within a coffered round-arched recess. The arch springs from a triglyph frieze and entablature standing on 4 unfluted Roman Doric columns. One 5-light leaded cross casement left and right and 3 to the first floor. Pilasters flanking central bay rise to a raised parapet to terminate in bulbous terracotta finials. North flank a 4-window range, each divided by polygonal turrets with terracotta details and finials as before. INTERIOR: staircase with wrought-iron balusters supporting a rounded handrail. Wrought-iron railings to the east and north returns with minor Art Deco scrolled finials.

Listing NGR: TG5282307373