Listing Text

TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES ALEXANDRA ROAD
(west side)

8/2 No 41
(Woodliffe Villa)

GV II

House and restaurant. Late C19 with C20 alterations. Red brick in
Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof. Cast iron arcade and balcony. 3
storeys, 2 bays. Full length pavement arcade carrying first-floor
balcony, with narrow bay to entrance to right, and wider bay to left,
slender columns with octagonal bases, ribbed lower sections to
shafts, and composite capitals; ornate openwork round arch to narrower
right bay and similar arched brackets to left bay. Plain frieze.
Ornate balcony railings, of 4 panels, with scrollwork and dog-bars to
lower section, closely-scrolled upper section with floral motifs; square
section principals with ball finials. Ground floor: 2 stone steps to
recessed C20 part-glazed panelled door beneath plain fanlight in
rendered original round-headed surround with keyed arch, moulded
archivolt and imposts. C20 shopfront to left. First floor:
part-glazed double doors beneath overlight and keyed ashlar and brick.
segmental arch with moulded ashlar capitals. Canted wooden bay window
to left, with pilasters, segmental-headed plate-glass sashes, moulded
bracketed frieze, dentilled cornice and hood. First floor: pair of
windows with ashlar sills and C20 glazing beneath segmental keyed arch
similar to first-floor doorway. Keystones and capitals to door and
window arches bear a variety of moulded foliate and shell motifs.
Moulded brick cornice. Stack to left with moulded brick cornice, raised
later in C19. Together with neighbouring Nos. 42-45 inclusive (qv), the
best-preserved balconied buildings on the seafront.

Listing NGR: TA3069008828