Description

TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES CAMBRIDGE STREET (north side)

8/7 Railings to Council 17/9/80 House along Cambridge Street elevation

GV II

Walls and railings. 1903-4 by Herbert C Scaping of Grimsby, architect, Egbert Rushton, engineer and surveyor, and Henry Marrows, builder, for Cleethorpes and Thrunscoe Urban District Council. Ashlar piers and dwarf wall; wrought-iron railings. 7 bays: sinuous 4-bay section to left, flanking main entrance to Council House (qv), and straight 3-bay section to right, flanking gateway. Square-section piers with egg-and-dart cornice, moulded cornice and domed tops. Round-topped dwarf wall, ramped up in 3 places. Plain railings with pointed finials, the 3 sections to the left each containing 2 intermediate panels with struts to rear buttresses, the panels with scrollwork and ornate tops of a similar Arts and Crafts style to the Council House staircase balustrade. Undergoing renovation, and gates (described in previous listing as also in ornate Arts and Crafts style) missing at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: TA3075408581

External Links

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)