List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: Lifeboat House
List Entry Number: 1277330
Location
Lifeboat House, Beach Road, Wells-Next-the-Sea
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Norfolk
District: North Norfolk
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Wells-Next-the-Sea
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 09-Sep-1993
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 407187
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TF 94 SW
615/4/10000
WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA
BEACH ROAD
Lifeboat House
II
Lifeboat house. 1869. Design attributed to Charles Cooke. Big Carr stone with Holkham white brick dressings. Roof of black glazed pantiles, repaired in places. Single storey, rectangular in plan. Essentially a shed with gable ends given architectural treatment. Gothic Revival style. Each gable with pointed diaphragm arches into three-bay loggia; this space designed for oar storage. In centre of south elevation a broad flat-arched opening with brick relieving arch. Original plank doors replaced by late C20 front of no distinction; this, like the plate glass window in the north elevation, does not extend into the original fabric. Each gable parapet has single step at midpoint and a pitched ashlar finial at its apex. Pointed-arch window in gable head, glazing bars of original design. Iron purlin ties. Eaves to returns have timber dentils; posts supporting roof are bracketed and chamfered; brackets with decorative ends. Three windows similar to that in the gable head already described along each return wall.
Original interior survives in the north halt, now a maritime museum where timber trusses with purlins; boarded sloping ceiling: the southern halt was converted in 1897 to a reading room with fireplace; ground floor opened as tea rooms to celebrate Diamond Jubilee. From this conversion there remains, upstairs, an iron fireplace with, externally, an axial brick ridge stack near the centre of the roof. North elevation with window in centre-flat arched, with pointed diaphragm arches to either side as on the south elevation; pointed-arch window to gable end.
Listing NGR: TF9156343911
Selected Sources
WebsitesBritish Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 25 February 2020 from
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Map
National Grid Reference: TF 91563 43911
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