Utility Block Immediately East Of No.244A

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206NW SOUTHTOWN ROAD 839-1/18/237 SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON 05-AUG-74 (East side) Utility block immediately east of No.2 44A (Formerly listed as: SOUTHTOWN ROAD SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON No.244a and adjoining workshop buildin gs)

GV II

Also Known As: Offices to the north of Coleman's Store, SOUTHTOWN ROAD, SOUTHTOWN AND GORLESTON Smithy and carpenters' shop. 1806-1810 (shown on a map of 1810), to designs of James Wyatt for the Ordnance Board. Converted to light engineering works 1971. Red brick with Cumberland slate roofs. One storey. 3 x 5 bays. To south face is a central semi-circular ached entrance flanked either side by two 3/6-pane unhorned sashes with gauged skewback arches. Dentil eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Interior: plain. HISTORY: The Lodges, Barrack Block, Armoury and Workshop survive from the original Board of Ordnance store of 1806-c1815, built to serve the fleet anchored in Yarmouth Roads during the war with France from 1793 to 1815. This was originally planned with parallel ranges of storehouses extending westwards from a quay on the River Yare to enclose a working area which included a small magazine. The probable designer was James Wyatt (1746-1813), Architect to the Board of Ordnance from 1782. One of two barrack blocks survive from its conversion into Militia Barracks in the 1850s, and further alterations to the site were made after its purchase by Coleman's (the food manufacturers) in the 1890s. Some of the Napoleonic buildings, including the storehouses and magazine, were destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.

(Adam Menuge and Andrew Williams, The Royal Ordnance Store, Great Yarmouth, RCHME, 1999 (NBR No. 44260)