NHER 34308 (Building record) - Former Maritime Museum, 24 Marine Parade

February 1990. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Home for shipwrecked sailors, converted to a maritime museum in 1965-1967. 1858. By AW Morant, extended to the west in 1908 by Olley & Haward. Italianate. Gault brick banded with red brick and with red brick dressings. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and basement; three-window range. Rusticated and stuccoed ground floor...Five-panelled door to the right under a hood on scrolled brackets...The parapet has four terracotta consoles over each window, a dentil cornice and a central clock set within a segmental pediment on volutes. Set-back low hipped roof. The north and south returns are of the same design, five-window ranges. To the rear (west) is the 1908 addition: one storey, stuccoed and rusticated, sashes and a doorway to the south.
INTERIOR: the ground floor rooms have sunk-quadrant bridging beams. At the rear the original exterior wall is now an internal wall, complete with its centre sash, the outer ones now converted to doors. The staircase has two turned balusters to each tread and a ramped and wreathed handrail…". Apparently mentioned (and depicted?) in (S1).
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA) 22 March 1998. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.

(S3) states that the design was by G.S. Harcourt under the guidance of Morant.
E. Rose (NLA), 29 November 2005.

(S4) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 29 May 2007.

The Maritime Museum for East Anglia was established here in 1967 after it closed as a sailors refuge in 1965. The building housed a large collection of objects, documents and models relating to regional aquatic trades from dredging to fishing to long-haul trading. It closed in 2002.
Information from NIAS records.
W. Arnold (HES), 18 January 2011.