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160 King Street

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Great Yarmouth Building Preservation Trust

Heritage Development Trust's latest project sees the restoration of historic 17th-century, timber-framed building 

Grade II

160 King Street is the only surviving example of a 17th-century jettied, timber-framed building in Great Yarmouth. King Street was one of the principal streets of the medieval town and is connected to the quayside by a series of narrow passageways known as the Rows. This building sits between two of the few remaining Rows, Herring’s Row and Old Hanna’s Row. Both its age and location makes it an important part of Great Yarmouth’s history as a thriving trading and fishing port. After a decade of vacancy and neglect, Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust acquired the building in 2019 following a Repairs Notice and Compulsory Purchase Order by the Borough Council.

Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust was established in 1979, and has a long record of delivering heritage projects in the town, assisted by a strong relationship with the local authority. From 2014, the Trust began to target the King Street area, which was, by this time, within one of the most deprived wards in the east of England and struggling with high vacancy rates. They actively acquired historic buildings at risk, carrying out repairs and creating viable new uses for redundant properties.

Having acquired 160 King Street, AHF was able to support the Trust’s plans to repair the building and bring it back into productive use with a Transformational Project Grant of £350,000 and Heritage Impact Fund loan of £28,000, providing the bulk of the funding needed for the capital works. Sensitive repair and conservation was completed in summer 2021. The restored and re-opened building will now feature a Jamaican restaurant on the ground floor, providing training in food skills for local people, and a two-bedroom flat on the first and second floors, generating income to help sustain the Trust’s work.

www.greatyarmouthpreservationtrust.org

Image Credit

Stuart Livesey

AHF Funding

Transformational Project Grant - £350,000 (2019)

Heritage Impact Fund loan - £28,000 (2019)

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