Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE WEST ST MARY'S GATE
699-1/21/93 (West side)
31/10/74 St Mary's Chambers and attached
railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as:
WEST ST MARY'S GATE
(West side)
St Mary's Chambers)

GV II

Solicitor's and former Town Clerk's offices. Mid C19, 2 builds
to front, with later rear additions and interior alterations.
Red brick, stuccoed to front and left return. Slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 3-bay symmetrical range to left,
single-window gabled section set back to right behind
railings. Plinth with foot scrapers; vermiculated rusticated
quoins, channelled rustication to ground floor. Section to
left has central round-arched entrance with recessed door
beneath plain fanlight in vermiculated rusticated surround.
Twin windows with 2 round-arched plate-glass sashes in
pilastered surrounds with sills and keyed arches. First-floor
sill band. First-floor 2/2 sashes with vermiculated keys and
shaped dripmoulds with moulded stops. Moulded cornice, coped
parapet. Hipped roof. End stacks.
Gabled section to right has round-headed entrance with
vermiculated rusticated surround, foot scraper, door beneath
plain overlight and panel in tympanum with relief inscription
"ST MARY'S CHAMBERS". To left, a tripartite window with a
central canted bay with segmental-headed 2/2 sashes in
pilastered wood surround beneath tented roof, flanked by
single segmental-headed 1/1 sashes. First-floor sill band.
Tripartite 1/1:2/2:1/1 first-floor sash beneath vermiculated
key and shaped hoodmould. Coped parapet and gable with finial.
Left return has first-floor sash with margin bars in keyed
shouldered architrave; moulded cornice and parapet; small
flat-roofed conservatory with glazing-bar sashes with narrow
pointed-arched lights.
INTERIOR: altered in C20. Retains original staircases, moulded
plasterwork cornices and alcoves; stained glass windows to
rear right.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings and gate with

elaborate openwork panels and finials.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.22;
Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-:
NO.10; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.22).

Listing NGR: TA2678409265

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660128

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2