Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE NELSON ROAD
839-1/16/122 (West side)
26/06/90 College of Art and Design including
railings to east and north

II

School of Art. 1912. By JW Cockrill. Steel frame with red
brick cladding and terracotta details. 2 storeys on a
basement. Facade faces east, a 3-window range. The corners
have polygonal turrets with terracotta panels at the divisions
of the storeys and terracotta sills to the windows. Deeply
recessed central doors under a Diocletian window, all within a
coffered round-arched recess. The arch springs from a triglyph
frieze and entablature standing on 4 unfluted Roman Doric
columns. One 5-light leaded cross casement left and right and
3 to the first floor. Pilasters flanking central bay rise to a
raised parapet to terminate in bulbous terracotta finials.
North flank a 4-window range, each divided by polygonal
turrets with terracotta details and finials as before.
INTERIOR: staircase with wrought-iron balusters supporting a
rounded handrail.
Wrought-iron railings to the east and north returns with minor
Art Deco scrolled finials.

Listing NGR: TG5282307373

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538502

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)