Description

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

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)