Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE OLD MARKET PLACE
699-1/21/47 (East side)
Nos.5 AND 6
The Pestle and Mortar public house

GV II

Public house. 1917 by HC Scaping of Grimsby, for Hadley's
Brewery. Brick with composite stone facing to ground floor,
imitation timber-framing and plaster infill to upper floors.
Slate roof. Tudor Revival style, with ornate West
Midlands-style timber framing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays to first and second floors. Ground
floor has 4 openings divided by plain rectangular piers.
Entrance to far right with recessed 2-fold partly glazed
Tudor-arched door beneath leaded-pane overlight with 3
cinquefoiled lights. To left, 3 recessed panels with plinth
and recessed 3-light windows with boldly moulded sills and
cinquefoiled lights, all with leaded glass, the outer lights
with 2 glazing bars, the central lights with stained glass
heraldic motifs. Above this a full-width half-timbered frieze
with C20 name-board. Modillioned first-floor jetty with carved
frieze. Upper storeys have full-height canted bays topped with
a modillioned cornice and coped parapet, also canted.
The wider central bay, flanked by herringbone timbered panels,
has 4-light windows to each storey; the side bays, flanked by
timber-framed pilaster strips, have 3-light windows. All
windows have cinquefoiled lights and leaded glass
incorporating stained-glass heraldic motifs. Above and below
the windows are decorative framed panels incorporating
quatrefoil and cross motifs. Parapet has similar framing with
relief-carved shields at the top of the pilasters, bearing
various Grimsby Arms.
INTERIOR: staircase hall and large single rooms to each floor,
all with C17-style wall panelling with a modillioned cornice,
panelled internal porches with Tudor-arched doors, panelled
ceilings with moulded foliate cornices. Staircase hall has
open-well cantilevered staircase with carved newels, panelled
string and column balusters; large circular roof light with
radial glazing and tinted glass.
This is an extremely well-preserved early C20 public house
with all its internal features surviving intact.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:

Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.23; Grimsby Borough
Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.8).

Listing NGR: TA2675109234

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660082

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