Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE BETHLEHEM STREET
699-1/21/16 (South side)
31/10/74 No.37
(Formerly Listed as:
BETHLEHEM STREET
(South side)
Nos.37 AND 39)

GV II

House, now offices. Mid C19 with minor C20 alterations. Red
brick in Flemish bond, rendered plinth. Welsh slate roof.
2-room central entrance hall front.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3-window range; symmetrical. Entrance has
panelled eared architrave with plinth blocks bearing carved
scrolled feet, and a shallow hood carried on large elaborately
scrolled foliate consoles; stone steps to 6-fielded-panel door
beneath large overlight with margin lights in panelled reveal.
Passage entrance to far right has recessed panelled door and
overlight with margin lights beneath cambered wedge lintel
with projecting key. Ground-floor sashes with margin lights,
projecting sills with C20 wrought-iron balconettes, and
projecting wedge lintels, plastered over in C20 (originally
with projecting keystones, as in passage entrance and No.39
next door, (qv). 6/6 sashes to first floor. 3/6 sashes to
second floor. Deep wooden eaves board with modillion brackets
carrying wooden gutter. End stacks.
INTERIOR: retains original open-well staircase (with
balustrade boarded over in C20) and other original features.
Reputed to have been erected 1871 for a local doctor.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.19;
Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.19).

Listing NGR: TA2681209213

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659631

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)