Description

GRIMSBY

TA2608NE BARGATE
699-1/26/1 (East side)
Nos.3-9 (Odd)
St James's Terrace

GV II

4 terraced houses. 1840-3. Finely-jointed red brick in Flemish
bond with white lime pointing. Welsh slate roof. Cast-iron
balustrade to balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, each house with 2 first-floor windows.
Plinth. Each house has 2 stone steps to panelled door and
overlight with margin bars (apart from No.3 which has a plain
overlight) in wooden architrave and reveal. Ground-floor
canted bay window to left of door with brick base, stone sill
and plate-glass sashes in wooden architraves beneath plain
frieze with bold fillet. No.3 has a later wooden bow window
with glazing bars. Continuous first-floor balcony carried on
bay windows and moulded wooden brackets, with a moulded wooden
fascia and a cast-iron balustrade with a wooden handrail.
Balcony has sandstone paving, with boarded underside.
Balustrade has baluster principals with octagonal columns,
alternating scrolled panels and plain bars.
Pairs of segmental-headed first-floor French windows with
glazing bars in wood architraves and raised brick surrounds
with rubbed-brick arches with projecting keystones.
Second floor has segmental-headed 3/6 sashes in similar raised
keyed surrounds with stone sills with recessed central
sections. Nos.3 and 9 have C20 second-floor replacement
windows in original openings.
Stone tablet to far left inscribed "ST JAMES'S TERRACE".
Prominent fluted modillion brackets carrying corniced wooden
gutter.
Each house has corniced roof stacks to front and rear.
INTERIOR: each house has moulded dado rails and cornices to
halls and main rooms, panelled doors in architraves; open-well
staircase with plain balusters, barley-twist newels and swept
grip handrail. Bay windows have hung sash shutters and
original sashes but with small-pane glazing bars removed in
later C19.
Terrace was extended shortly afterwards with Nos.11-15 (qv).
Forms a group with the slightly later balconied terrace in
Pelham Road (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 340; Grimby Borough Planning
Dept: Grimsby - Action for Conservation: List of buildings of

local architectural or historical interest; Grimsby Borough
Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: 1972: 119).

Listing NGR: TA2651108939

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659615

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