Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SW SOUTH QUAY
839-1/15/175 (North East side)
05/08/74 No.20
Custom House

GV II*

House. 1720. For John Andrews, a very important herring
merchant. Bought 1802 by H.M. Government for use as a Custom's
House, sold 1986 to Port of Yarmouth Commissioners. Red brick
laid in Flemish bond with stone quoins and dressings. Slate
roof. Single-pile plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on a basement; 8-window range in all.
Central double doors occupying 2 window bays with an early C19
porch on a pair of Greek Doric columns. Basement and all other
windows under segmental stone arches with keystones. Ground
and first-floor horned sashes with 9/9 glazing bars; 6/6
second-floor horned sashes. Parapet partly conceals
shallow-pitched gabled roof. Pair of stacks on rear wall
plane. To right and left of facade is a narrow bay with an
arched entrance to Row 103 (north) and Row 104 (south). Above
is one 9/9 sash as before. Rear with a 2-storey outshut and a
2-storey gabled rear extension.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with large-framed panelling to north
side. Open-string staircase with 3 balusters per tread: a
turned baluster separating an iron-twist and a barleysugar
baluster. Carved floral tread-ends and a moulded ramped and
wreathed handrail. Main north room on ground floor has a
bolection-moulded fireplace and large-framed panelling all
round. Corresponding south room with an C18 rosette and dart
surround to the C20 tile fireplace. Large-framed panelling and
a moulded cornice . North attic room with re-used C17
small-framed panelling. C19 roof of common rafters, a purlin
and collars.

Listing NGR: TG5240407242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554492

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