Description

GRIMSBY

TA2710SW CLEETHORPE ROAD
699-1/11/25 (South side)
No.18
and attached walls and railings

GV II

Offices and attached walls and railings. Walls and railings of
1879; office of 1913 by JB Ball. Office in banded limestone
ashlar and red brick. Edwardian Classical style. Plain tile
roof. L-shaped on plan, with entrance and single room to
front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, single bay. Gable facing. Moulded plinth.
Entrance to left has recessed door and overlight with margin
lights in tall moulded ashlar surround with deep frieze,
moulded cornice and shallow hood. Large window to right with 3
plate-glass lights in ashlar surround with moulded reveal,
sill and ashlar apron, deep frieze and cornice similar to
door. First floor has three 6/6 sashes in ashlar surrounds
with moulded reveals, sills, aprons, cornices and hoods, the
central window below a tympanum. Pair of slit-lights above.
Gable with moulded coping, shaped kneelers.
Left return has pair of ground-floor casements to right in
surrounds with deep frieze and hood similar to front door.
Narrow gabled section projecting to left has tripartite
ground-floor window with casements in similar ashlar
surrounds; first-floor triple window in ashlar surrounds with
sills, aprons and hood similar to front, banded and coped
gable.
Right return has 3 windows in similar ashlar surrounds;
side-wall stack corbelled-out from first floor with panelled
and banded shaft, ashlar cap. Similar corbelled stack to rear.
INTERIOR: panelled entrance lobby, corniced ceilings, etc.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: walls and railings: red brick walls and
piers with ashlar coping and cast-iron railings. 2 sections:
short curved section attached to front left of office
building; longer straight section attached to rear right,
running alongside the Customs House (qv). Both sections have a
dwarf brick wall with a chamfered ashlar plinth, a
square-section end-pier with a low pyramidal ashlar cap,
cast-iron railings with alternating barley-twist and plain
bars, shaped finials and points above a single top rail, the
rear railings also with square-section principals with ball
finials.
These walls and railings formed part of the enclosure for the
gardens which housed the Albert Statue (qv), now resited

nearby on Royal Street in front of the Docks Office (qv).
Included for group value with the Customs House (qv).
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.92).

Listing NGR: TA2745110414

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659666

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings