Description

GRIMSBY

TA2607SE SCARTHO ROAD
699-1/39/59 (East side)
09/02/98 Municipal Cemetery Lodge

GV II

Cemetery gate lodge. 1888 by EW Farebrother of Grimsby for
Grimsby Corporation Cemetery Committee; C20 additions and
alterations. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings;
stuccoed upper storey with imitation half-timbering. Green
slate roof.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: main range T-shaped, with entrance porch in north angle;
later C19-early C20 extensions to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. North front,
facing cemetery entrance, has single-window section to right
and projecting gabled wing to left, with turreted entrance
porch in angle. Chamfered plinth, continuous moulded string
courses to ground floor at sill and lintel level. Porch has
pointed arched doorway with moulded arch dying into chamfered
jambs, hoodmould with carved stops, 2-fold half-glazed door
with coloured glass panels. Window to right return of porch
has moulded surround, hoodmould, carved stops, margin lights
and coloured glass.
Section to right has projecting ground-floor ashlar bay window
with 3-light mullioned and transomed window, moulded cornice
and hipped roof. Gabled section to left has twin 2-light
cross-windows with moulded ashlar reveals and quoined
surrounds. Ground-floor windows have wooden ovolo-moulded
mullions and transoms, coloured leaded lights to upper
sections. Moulded first-floor ashlar string course. Turret has
cylindrical first-floor section with a pair of slit-lights in
quoined surrounds with moulded reveals, string courses and
brick relieving arches; moulded ashlar cornice, tall conical
roof with wrought-iron finial. Remainder of first floor has
rendering incised into squares containing curved lines. Wing
to left has 3-light window with moulded mullions, architrave
and bracketed sill; half-timbered gable, overhanging eaves
with shaped brackets, moulded barge-boards, finial.
Roof hipped and gabled, with exposed rafter-ends, crested
ridge tiles. 2 ridge-stacks with corbelled brick and rendered
caps.
Right return has 2-light ashlar ground-floor window and gabled
first-floor similar to north front; single-bay section
slightly set back to right has 2-light ground-floor window and
original 2-light first-floor mullioned window.

Left return has ground-floor ashlar bay window, half-timbered
first floor, hipped roof; C20 addition.
Rear has lower kitchen and outhouse extensions, half-dormers
and hipped roofs.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Forms part of a group with the Municipal Cemetery chapel and
gateway (qv).
(Grimsby Planning Department: Scartho Road Cemetery Leaflets:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1994-).

Listing NGR: TA2673107224

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660100

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