Sewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 June 1953. House, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
Sewell House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-gutter-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 June 1953
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5207NW CHURCH PLAIN 839-1/12/20 (East side) 27/06/53 No.26 Sewell House
GV II
House, now restaurant. Probably early C17 in origins when built as part of No.27 (qv). Rendered and whitewashed brick with re-used timber elements. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and dormer attic; single window range. Facade built out in 1932 by AW Ecclestone using material salvaged by Harry Johnson. 4-light mullioned cross casement to ground floor salvaged from a house in Row 51. 3-light casement window to first floor, 2-light attic window. Behind this gable is a small dormer, also of 1932. Gabled roof. INTERIOR: C20 winder staircase, roof of principal rafters and one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins. HISTORICAL NOTE: birthplace of Anna Sewell (1820-78), and house in which she wrote Black Beauty. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-east Norfolk and Norwich: Harmondsworth: 1962-: 143-146).
Listing NGR: TG5242707957
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