Description

GRIMSBY

TA2709SW TOWN HALL SQUARE
699-1/22/70 (South side)
The Doughty Centre, adjoining
screen wall and former Fire
Station

GV II

Shown on OS map as Doughty Museum.
Girls school, now Adult Education Centre, adjoining screen
wall, and former Fire Station now St John's Ambulance Rooms.
School 1863, with later C19 Fire Station, for Grimsby
Corporation; later alterations and additions. Yellow brick
with brown brick and ashlar dressings. Concrete tile roof.
L-shaped on plan: with school to front and Fire Station
addition to rear.
EXTERIOR: former school has single-storey front section of 4
by one bays. Front has projecting entrance bay to left and
3-bay symmetrical section to right 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 recessed 2-fold panelled door
beneath original 2-pane fanlight and moulded ashlar arch with
fluted impost bands and tall stepped keystone. Section to
right has continuous projecting ashlar sill band and windows
in recessed panels: 3 closely-set windows to pedimented bay
and pairs of widely-spaced windows to side bays, all are
narrow 2/2 sashes with margin lights beneath segmental brick
arches with tall ashlar keystones linked by a continuous
string course. Bold wooden modillioned cornice. Entrance bay
has bracketed ashlar panel below cornice with relief
inscription "ERECTED AD 1863", and blocking course with raised
central triangular-headed section and relief inscription
"GIRLS SCHOOL". Hipped roof.
Right return has similar details: 3 closely-spaced windows to
left; recessed 2-window section to right with door inserted
beneath the left window.
Screen wall adjoining to front left, approximately 7 metres
long, has plinth, piers, channelled rustication, stone coping
and 2 former doorways blocked with matching brick.
Former Fire Station. Similar style and materials. 2 storeys, 3
bays with narrower bay to far right. Rusticated pilasters
between bays, keyed segmental-arched plate-glass first-floor
windows beneath keyed segmental arches linked by a string
course; moulded wooden eaves cornice, hipped concrete tile
roof. Late C20 projecting ground-floor addition.

INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the former Girls School and the former Grammar School
(now the Registrar's Office, qv) form flanking pavilions to
the Town Hall (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.2; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.2).

Listing NGR: TA2715209296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660112

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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