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Prudential Building

A Grade II Listed Building in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5656 / 53°33'56"N

Longitude: -0.0856 / 0°5'8"W

OS Eastings: 526885

OS Northings: 409367

OS Grid: TA268093

Mapcode National: GBR WWV6.8K

Mapcode Global: WHHHS.NMGX

Plus Code: 9C5XHW87+6Q

Entry Name: Prudential Building

Listing Date: 30 June 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1379896

English Heritage Legacy ID: 479338

ID on this website: 101379896

Location: Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31

County: North East Lincolnshire

Electoral Ward/Division: West Marsh

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Grimsby

Traditional County: Lincolnshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lincolnshire

Church of England Parish: Great Grimsby St Mary and St James

Church of England Diocese: Lincoln

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Description



GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/79 (North side)
No.49
Prudential Building

GV II

Shop and offices. 1913. By Paul Waterhouse for Prudential
Assurance Co. Ltd. Limestone ashlar with green slate roof.
Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic. 1:3:1 bays, with central bays
breaking forward. Plinth, channelled rustication to ground
floor, 4 giant Ionic pilasters to central section. Ground
floor has central C20 shop front in original wide
segmental-arched opening with scrolled keystone and pair of
squared brackets carrying a narrow central first-floor
balcony. Recessed side bays each have doorways with
architraves, bracketed dosserets and a dentilled open pediment
supporting a deeply-recessed circular window with glazing bars
in an architrave with an elaborate carved keystone with
festoons, ribbons and fruit. Entrance on right has original
panelled door; former entrance on left has inserted C20
glazing.
First-floor string course. Pilastered central section has
deeply recessed windows. Central bay has a projecting panel
with scrolled feet, containing a balconied first-floor window
beneath an elaborate carved cartouche and dentilled segmental
hood, the panel continuing above to form the base of a
second-floor balcony. Both balconies have geometric
wrought-iron balustrades. Flanking bays 2 and 4 have blind
balustraded aprons to the second-floor windows. Outer bays
have full-height panels containing windows with bead-and-reel
moulded reveals, moulded sills and raised panels between
floors. All windows (apart from dormers) have C20 2-light
casements. Central entablature with raised gold lettering in
frieze "PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED", modillioned
cornice and blocking course. Side bays have coped parapets
with blind balustrades to flat-roofed dormers with cross
windows and glazing bars. Similar 4-light mullioned and
transomed dormer to centre. Coped gables. End stacks.
INTERIOR: panelled doors in architraves, moulded cornices;
open-well staircase around lift-shaft.
(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.14; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.14; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 17).


Listing NGR: TA2688509367

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