Garsett House in Norwich’s city centre is a striking coral-coloured Elizabethan building. Standing on the corner of Princes Street and St Andrew’s Street, it has mullioned, leaded windows and a grand Georgian portico entrance, with each of its three jettied storeys jutting out above the floor below. On the right side, below the chimney, is a plaster relief carving of a wooden boat with white sails, and the building’s other name: Armada House.
Built in 1589 —the year after the Spanish Armada was launched and defeated— the Grade II-listed Garsett House was constructed using timber from a sunken Spanish ship.
