St Marys Chambers And Attached Railings And Gates

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