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Education Department Offices

A Grade II Listed Building in East Marsh, North East Lincolnshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5674 / 53°34'2"N

Longitude: -0.0735 / 0°4'24"W

OS Eastings: 527683

OS Northings: 409587

OS Grid: TA276095

Mapcode National: GBR WWX5.WX

Mapcode Global: WHHHS.VL6K

Plus Code: 9C5XHW8G+WJ

Entry Name: Education Department Offices

Listing Date: 30 June 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379833

English Heritage Legacy ID: 479266

ID on this website: 101379833

Location: East Marsh, North East Lincolnshire, DN32

County: North East Lincolnshire

Electoral Ward/Division: East Marsh

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Grimsby

Traditional County: Lincolnshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire

Church of England Parish: Great Grimsby St Andrew with St Luke and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Lincoln

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Description



GRIMSBY

TA2709NE ELEANOR STREET
699-1/18/31 (North side)
Education Department Offices

GV II

Education offices. 1900-1 for Great Grimsby School Board by HC
Scaping of Grimsby; Hewins and Goodhand, builders. Red brick
in English bond with limestone ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
Edwardian Classical style. Rectangular on plan: 2-room front
with entrance staircase hall to left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays. Moulded ashlar plinth,
swept up to form aprons beneath windows. Flush ashlar bands to
first floor. Entrance to left has Ionic doorcase with marble
columns, entablature with pulvinated frieze and modillioned
segmental pediment; recessed 2-fold panelled door and
overlight in segmental-arched doorway with rusticated
blockwork surround with keyed architrave.
Segmental-headed 6/6 sashes to right in similar keyed
rusticated surrounds with corniced sills. Apron beneath
central window has marble foundation stone dated 29 November
1900 and recording architect, builder etc. First floor:
symmetrical arrangement with a central segmental-bowed ashlar
oriel and 4 sashes linked by sill string course and 3 flush
ashlar bands. Oriel carried on carved brackets, with a moulded
apron bearing a relief carving of the town's seal (showing
Grim and Havloc the Dane), and a 6/6 sash beneath a 3-pane
segmental overlight in a panelled ashlar surround beneath a
bracketed segmental hood with double keystone. Flanking
windows have 6/6 sashes with similar overlights in
segmental-headed eared and shouldered architraves with double
keystones. Pulvinated ashlar frieze and moulded eaves cornice.
Decorative rainwater-head to right, dated 1901.
Mansard roof with 3 dormers with 3/6 sashes beneath bold
segmental pedimented hoods with modillioned cornices. Leaded
base of central cupola on ridge. Round-arched gable-ends with
ashlar bands and coping. End stacks with panelled sides,
ashlar bands and cap. Returns have continuation of first-floor
banding; right return has pair of ground-floor windows similar
to front.
INTERIOR: good open-well cantilevered wooden staircase with
panelled closed string, square-column balusters, fluted
square-column newels and ramped corniced handrail; hall and
main rooms with dado rails, segmental-arched panelled doors
with architraves, moulded cornices and panelled ceilings.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:

Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.105; Ambler RW: Great
Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: 50).

Listing NGR: TA2768309587

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