page_title: George Skipper
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: George Skipper / Works
caption_attribution_description: Norwich (UK), Norwich Arcade
context_page_description: George John Skipper was a leading Norwich-based architect of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Writer and poet, John Betjeman said of him "he is altogether remarkable and original. He was to Norwich what Gaudi was to Barcelona"
context_section_description: Norwich
  Jarrolds departmental store, Exchange Street and London Street. (1903–05).
  Skipper's office at 7, London Street now part of the above store  (1896).
  Additions and extensions to 9–11 London Street  (1897).
  The Royal Arcade (1898–99).
  Norfolk Daily Standard offices, St Giles' Street (1899–1900).
  Haymarket Chambers, (1901–03).
  Norwich Union, headquarters Surrey Street  (1901–06).
  Commercial Chambers, Red Lion Street (1901–03).
  London and Provincial Bank (1907).
  Norfolk and London Accident Assurance offices, 41–43 St Giles' Street (1906), later a Telephone Exchange. Now  (2010), a luxury hotel.
  Cromer
  Cliftonville Hotel
  Cromer Town Hall (1890), Extant.
  Hotel de Paris. Extensively remodelled in 1895–96.
  Hotel Metropole, (1893). Demolished.
  Grand Hotel, (1891). Demolished.
  Sandcliff Hotel (1895)
  East Harling
  The Crescent - experimental council housing built with clay lump (1919-1920)
  Guist
  Sennowe Hall, was redesigned by Skipper between (1904–11).
  Hunstanton
  Hunstanton Town Hall
  Lowestoft
  Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club clubhouse (1903)
  Somerset
  Crispin Hall, Street (1885)
  Sexey's School, Bruton (1882-1891)
  Millfield School, Street (1888-1889)
caption: The Royal Arcade, Norwich
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