Anna Sewell House Great Yarmouth, England
Listed Building Data
The Anna Sewell House has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1096811
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 27 June 1953
- Name
- SEWELL HOUSE
- Location
- SEWELL HOUSE, 26, CHURCH PLAIN
- District
- Great Yarmouth
- County
- Norfolk
- Grid Reference
- TG 52437 07954
- Easting
- 652437.0000
- Northing
- 307954.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5207NW CHURCH PLAIN 839-1/12/20 (East side) 27/06/53 No.26 Sewell House
GV II
House, now restaurant. Probably early C17 in origins when built as part of No.27 (qv). Rendered and whitewashed brick with re-used timber elements. Pantiled roof. 2 storeys and dormer attic; single window range. Facade built out in 1932 by AW Ecclestone using material salvaged by Harry Johnson. 4-light mullioned cross casement to ground floor salvaged from a house in Row 51. 3-light casement window to first floor, 2-light attic window. Behind this gable is a small dormer, also of 1932. Gabled roof.
INTERIOR: C20 winder staircase, roof of principal rafters and one tier of taper-tenoned butt purlins.
HISTORICAL NOTE: birthplace of Anna Sewell (1820-78), and house in which she wrote Black Beauty.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North-east Norfolk and Norwich: Harmondsworth: 1962-: 143-146).
Listing NGR: TG5243707954
