3, South Quay

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SW SOUTH QUAY 839-1/15/164 (East side) 27/06/53 No.3

GV II

Marked on OS map as No.2 House. 1596, converted to municipal offices in 1989. Built for the merchant Benjamin Cooper as part of No.4 (qv), divided into 2 properties C18. Until then the rear wing formed part of the courtyard of No.4 added in 1603-10. The courtyard remains, greatly altered. Early C19 gault brick facade under a roof of black-glazed pantiles. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. 6-panelled door to the right set within panelled reveals under an open pediment on block Doric entablatures and engaged columns. Geometric fanlight. Two 6/6 sashes to the left under gauged skewback arches and 3 similar to the first floor behind a wrought-iron balcony. Three 6/3 sashes to the second floor. Modillion eaves cornice and gabled roof. Internal gable-end stack to north. There is a long 2-storey rear wing whitewashed and pierced by C19 and C20 windows on the north side. The east gable has a 4-light ovolo-moulded cross casement to the first floor and further, renewed, 2- and 4-light cross casements illuminate the hipped 2-storey block abutting to the south. This block is the east block to the 1603 courtyard and has on its courtyard side a 6-light ovolo-moulded cross casement with a central king mullion on the first floor. On the interior the king mullion has a tapering baluster with fish-scale carving and a stylised Ionic capital. The east window is similar, but of 4 lights. INTERIOR: integral with Nos 1, 2 & 2B (qv). The passage from the front door has been removed. The staircase is mid C18: open string, turned balusters and scrolled tread ends. Ramped and wreathed handrail. The rear wing has a C19 staircase with alternating barley sugar and turned balusters. The rear wing has at the east end an office at the first floor with a bridging beam decorated with double sunk quadrants and a fluted tongue stop. C18 fireplace also. The next room south at the first-floor level faces the courtyard. It has small-framed early C17 panelling and a fireplace with bulbous side pilasters. In a cupboard is re-used early C18 panelling.

Listing NGR: TG5233607364