Description

GRIMSBY

TA2709NE FREEMAN STREET
699-1/18/34 (West side)
No.158

II

Jeweller's shop. Mid C19, remodelled 1939 by Pollards of
London for C Nidd and Son. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Front
with fascia of polished black Vitrolite glass with bronze
strip surround, and with bronze surrounds to openings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, single bay. Ground floor has
square-headed plate-glass shop window on right side and
entrance on left side to a long, slightly tapering, serpentine
passage with a series of 4 large plate-glass display windows
to each side. Shop windows to the front and the passage all
have black Vitrolite aprons with small circular ventilators,
slender wood frames, and friezes with black glass panels with
white lettering. Entrance passage has a glazed wooden inner
door beneath a plain overlight, polished composite stone floor
with grey and black border; panelled wooden ceiling with a
circular clock suspended midway along passage. Full-height
shop fascia has flush surround to the front window and doorway
with a deep black Vitrolite frieze above with attached white
lettering "PHILIP JOHN", framed by the bronze arms for a
folding canopy. Attached in front of this is a later painted
name-board in a matching style bearing the name "JONATHAN
PAUL". Above this is the canopy box and a tripartite
first-floor window, all with bronze surrounds. The wide
central window has a recesssed black Vitrolite panel with
white lettering "ENGAGEMENT AND WEDDING RINGS -- WATCH
SPECIALISTS" within a white border. Narrow flanking side
lights have frosted glass behind thin bronze "fish-scale"
pattern lattice-work; each side light with a burglar alarm box
attached near the top. C19 corniced wooden gutter above. End
stack to right.
INTERIOR: entrance passage is boxed in with polished mahogany
panelling and sliding doors, with plinth, frieze and cornice.
Contemporary display cabinets.
Robert Nidd founded the family jewellers business in 1895, and
from the mid C20 the business traded under the name "Philip
John". Since 1994 it has traded under the name "Jonathan
Paul".
A distinctive shop front in the Modern style, notable for its
high standard of design, materials and manufacture.

Listing NGR: TA2761809856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660066

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