Description

GRIMSBY

TA2710NE FISH DOCK ROAD, The Docks
699-1/7/120 (East side)
Tom Taylor and Son's shop and
warehouse

GV II

Fishermens' outfitters shop and warehouse. Late C19 for J
Bygrave Ltd. Red brick front with stone dressings to Fish Dock
Road; yellow brick front with red brick dressings to Surtees
Street. Welsh slate roof. Fish Dock Road front in Low
Countries Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. Plinth with
chamfered ashlar cap. Entrance to left has recessed panelled
door and overlight in keyed segmental-arched surround with
brick pilasters and ashlar head with tall fluted dosserets,
scrolled pediment with relief carved tympanum containing
cartouche in foliate surround. Fine shop front to right with
recessed central entrance with part-glazed panelled door in
panelled pilastered surround with moulded cornice. Ornate
polychrome mosaic floor to entrance with inscription "J.
BYGRAVE LTD" within floral border. Shop window has moulded
sills, slender columned wooden mullions with Ionic capitals,
large single panes below and frieze above with frosted glass
and geometric glazing bars. Above the entrance is an ornate
carved wood panel with scrolled decoration. Green-tiled shop
front surround with moulded and pulvinated plinth, panelled
pilasters with moulded medallions, Ionic capitals with vine
drops, scrolled acanthus brackets and tall dosserets capped
with segmental pediments with moulded tympana. Frieze with egg
and dart cornice, C20 name board, cornice and hood.
First floor: central 3-light window flanked on each side by 2
single-light windows, that to far left shorter, all with wood
mullions and transoms, single panes below, glazing bars above,
moulded stone sills, rubbed brick segmental arches. Second
floor: single keyed oculus windows with glazing bars to outer
bays; projecting central gabled panel carried on a pulvinated
ashlar string course, with 3 stepped round-headed windows with
a 2-light central window flanked by single lights. 3 panes to
each light, with a geometric fanlight to the central window.
Linked round-arched hoodmoulds, the central window with a tall
keystone carrying a pilaster strip. Coped central gable with
shaped kneelers and a raised apex capped with a moulded ashlar
pediment with a relief-carved tympanum, the pediment bisected
by the central pilaster strip which is topped by a ball
finial. Side bays have moulded ashlar eaves cornices and

moulded kneelers. Tall central stack and stack to rear right
with corbelled brick cornices, ashlar caps.
Front to Surtees Street has 3 first-floor openings. Central
entrance with board door flanked by 3-light windows (that to
right boarded). First floor: central 3-light window with
protective metal grille in front, flanked by taller windows.
Second floor: central board door with timber hoist arm above,
flanked by windows similar to those below but shorter. All
windows have 3 lights, wood mullions and transoms. All doors
and windows have segmental red brick arches and projecting
stone sills (except for central first-floor window). Corbelled
4-course brick verge to gable.
INTERIOR: shop has cast-iron column, original fittings; not
fully investigated.
HISTORY: originally known as the Yarmouth Stores, the premises
of a fishermens' outfitter and sea-boot maker; still used as a
fishermens' outfitter's shop.
This is architecturally the most impressive and well preserved
example of this type of the small combined shop and warehouse
that characterize Grimsby Fish Docks, dating from the period
when Grimsby was the world's foremost fishing port.

Listing NGR: TA2791410967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660063

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