NHER 43016 (Building record) - Masonic Royal Assembly Rooms, South Beach Parade

August 1974. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Assembly rooms dating from 1863 by H H Collins. Partly burnt out in 1870 and became the masonic lodge under patronage of HRH Prince of Wales. Gault brick. Slate roofs. 2 storeys. Hipped block with 5 blind arched windows. Stacks on north and south slopes. Set in front is an arcade of 5 bays on Tuscan order columns, the outer bays filled in 1930s to provide storage rooms. Right and left are single-storey extensions each with a canted window bay facing east. Triple arcade on square piers to north return leads to main doorway. INTERIOR: main room occupies entire central block and rises through both storeys. 5 by 3 bays. Tuscan order pilasters with egg-and-dart decoration to capitals rise to an entablature with a plain frieze. Above the cornice are blind semicircular arches corresponding to the blind windows. Curved brackets rise from the cornice to the panelled plaster ceiling which has fleur-de-lys roses and short pendants. Balcony runs along west side with a cast-iron balustrade.
Information from (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 25 January 2006.

March 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The building was apparently commandeered by the Navy during World War Two (S2).
S. Tremlett (NLA), 10 March 2006.