Description

LOFTUS GRINKLE LANE
NZ 71 SW
(off east side),
Easington.
3/18 Grinkle Park Flats, c.l90m
north of Grinkle Park
Hotel.
- II
Stable block.c.1875, probably by Alfred Waterhouse, for Sir Charles Mark
Palmer, shipbuilder of Jarrow; now partly converted to flats. Rockfaced
sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical, on 4
sides of open courtyard. Entrance front: 2 storeys, 13 bays, including
3-bay gabled centre and slightly lower 2-bay ends. Wide central
segmental-pointed-arched carriage entrance holding boarded double doors
under stopped hoodmould carved with initials:C.M.P. Roundels in spandrels
have sculptured wyverns. 4-bay segmental-pointed arcading to left and
right. Bays flanking entrance are narrower and hold boarded doors,
overlights and blocked heads with trefoil ornament. Other bays hold sash
windows and quatrefoil lights in roundels. Sash windows on first floor.
Tripartite sash window, with blocked pointed-arched central head holding
trefoil ornament, under stopped hoodmould, in gable. All windows have
moulded lintels and battered sills with sill bands. Palmer family motto on
carved ribbon below gable window. Coat of arms in apex of gable with ball
and stem finial. Moulded consoles and corbels at eaves. Ends have similar
single and paired windows. Hipped and gabled roofs with ridge stacks, those
flanking and to right of gable truncated. 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled hayloft
on east side of courtyard, has central boarded door, altered ground-floor
windows under relieving arches, central loft door and hinged crane,
first-floor roundels, and clock in circular opening in gable. Wall removed
from single-storey coach house on south side of courtyard. Other ranges
around courtyard are single-storey stables.

Listing NGR: NZ7414114963

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599273

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)