56 And 57, North Quay

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207NW NORTH QUAY 839-1/12/244 (East side) 21/11/88 Nos.56 AND 57

GV II

Pair of houses with shops. C18, heightened in early C19 and with C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond; No.57 has been rendered. Slate roof with coped gables. 2 storey house, heightened in early C19 to 3 storeys. Shops were inserted on the ground floor, the early C20 shopfront to No.56 is part of a large shopfront which extends across No.55 (qv). EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-window range, the end windows are narrower, and the second floor end windows are blind. The 3 right hand bays have been rendered but the other windows have flat brick arches, gauged on the first floor. Originally all sashes but only those of the right hand 3 bays (No.57) are C19; the others are C20 and the first floor windows have been replaced by casements. 2 ground floor shop fronts; the left hand part has early C20 shop which extends across No.55 to the left; it has pilasters, a console and blind boxes. The right hand shop to No.57 is late C20 with a high fascia. INTERIOR: No.56 has lost most of its transverse partition walls on ground and first floors but the spine wall survives and there are sections of wall panelling surviving. Hardboard cladding to walls and ceilings may conceal further original features. The visible features include: cornices, dado rails, window architraves, shutters and seats; in the ground floor the bayed round-arched doorway.

Listing NGR: TG5209307718