NHER 4299 (Monument record) - Site of Town House and Old Staple Wool House, South Quay

Formerly Dutch Chapel.
18th century front masking much earlier buildings.
See (S1).
R. R. Clarke (NCM)

Demolished for access road.
1780 and 1809 coat of arms in Great Yarmouth Museum.
E. Rose (NAU)

History in (S2).
Site of 14th century house; 1317 in use as staple wool house. 1593 earliest public clock in town erected. 1619 onwards water bailiffs office. Dutch chapel 1574 to 1681 also used as town chapel of ease. 1736 to 1778 theatre. Public library in 19th century. Compass stone marking boundary of Yarmouth waters formerly outside, now set nearby at modern library entrance. Coats of arms now removed from Great Yarmouth Museum and set in Magistrates Courts.
E. Rose (NLA) 8 May 1992.

In fact the north wall of this building survives, now forming south wall of offices to north, believed to have been built in 1919.
Information from Great Yarmouth Borough Council.
E. Rose (NLA) 18 April 1997.

The latter date should be 1909.
The wall is listed as part of the adjacent building see NHER 34317 and (S3).
E. Rose (NLA) 23 March 1999.