Cavendish Hotel

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TG5306NW TG5306NW 839-1/20/90

GREAT YARMOUTH MARINE PARADE (west side) No.1, The Nelson Hotel

(Formerly listed as No.1, Cavendish Hotel, previously listed as: Cavendish Hotel, MARINE PARADE)

27/06/53

GV II Formerly known as: Brandon Mansions Hotel MARINE PARADE. Terrace of houses. 1844. By Farrants & Turrell. Converted to a hotel. Stuccoed brick. Roofs of slate and concrete tiles.

EXTERIOR: south front is a fourteen-window range, the centre ten of three storeys and dormer attic, the two side right and left of four storeys and broken forward slightly. Rusticated ground floor fitted with sash windows, most of which have lost their central glazing bars. The extreme end windows on all four floors are tripartite. Two hotel entrances. At first floor is a cast-iron balcony running into returns. French doors under stuccoed patches marking former existence of pediments. Platband at second floor. Second floor sashes with six/six glazing bars. Former cornice above survives only as a short length over western two bays. Mansard roof with ten flat-topped dormers, all with C20 casements. Hipped roofs over end pavilions. Four transverse stacks and one stack to each end pavilion. Western four bays have a cast-iron ground and first floor balcony under a bowed canopy. East return in five bays. Ground floor altered C20 by provision of external staircases and insertion of plate-glass windows. Upper windows as south front.

INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: TG5305206872