Description

GRIMSBY

TA2709SW TOWN HALL SQUARE
699-1/22/69 (South side)
Registrar's Office

GV II

Formerly known as: Corporation Grammar School TOWN HALL
SQUARE.
Shown on OS map as Municipal Offices.
Corporation Grammar school, now District Registrar's office.
1867 for Grimsby Corporation, with C20 additions and
alterations. Yellow brick with brown brick and ashlar
dressings. Welsh slate roof.
STYLE: Classical.
PLAN: main range rectangular, with subsidiary ranges to rear.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Front range of 4 by one bays: front
has projecting entrance bay to right and 3-bay symmetrical
section to left with central pedimented bay breaking forward.
Channelled and banded rustication, with bands picked out in
brown brick. Plinth; angle pilasters above sill band.
Round-headed entrance has C20 recessed panelled door with side
panels beneath original 2-pane fanlight and moulded ashlar
arch with fluted impost bands and tall stepped keystone.
3-bay section to left has continuous projecting ashlar sill
band and windows in recessed panels: 3 closely-set windows to
pedimented bay, pairs of widely-spaced windows to side bays,
all with narrow 2/2 sashes with margin lights beneath
segmental brick arches with tall ashlar keystones linked by an
ashlar string course. Bold wooden modillioned cornice.
Entrance bay has bracketed ashlar tablet below cornice with
relief inscription "ERECTED AD 1867", and an ashlar blocking
course with a raised triangular-headed central section bearing
carved relief and incised inscription "CORPORATION GRAMMAR
SCHOOL".
Hipped roof with central square-section base of former cupola.
Low roof stacks to rear.
Left and right returns have similar details, with 3
closely-set windows to front range; left return has inserted
door and recessed 2-window section to left.
Additions to rear in matching style and materials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building and the former Girls School (now the Doughty
Centre, qv) form flanking pavilions to the Town Hall (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, Antram N:
Lincolnshire: 1989: 342: London; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of

buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.3; Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: Central Conservation Dept: 1990-: NO.3).

Listing NGR: TA2706409302

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660111

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