St James'S Terrace

GRIMSBY

TA2608NE BARGATE 699-1/26/2 (East side) Nos.11, 13 AND 15 St James's Terrace

GV II

3 terraced houses. 1843-50. Finely-jointed red brick in Flemish bond with white lime pointing. Welsh slate roof. Cast-iron balustrade to balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 first-floor windows to each house. Plinth. Each house has 2 stone steps to panelled door and overlight with margin bars in panelled reveal and architrave with small bracketed and corniced hood (hood missing to No.15). Ground-floor canted bay window to left of door with brick base, stone sill and 2/2 sashes in flush wooden architraves beneath frieze with fluted modillion brackets and moulded cornice. Continuous first-floor balcony carried on bay windows and ornate scrolled foliate cast-iron brackets, with a corniced fascia and a cast-iron balustrade with a wooden handrail. Balustrade has geometric panels with alternate panels bearing openwork roundels and palmette ornament. Pair of full-height segmental-headed first-floor 6/9 sash windows in raised brick surrounds with projecting keystones. No.11 has wooden blind boxes; No.15 has C20 imitation sashes. Second floor has segmental-headed 3/6 windows in similar raised keyed surrounds with stone sills with recessed central sections: sashes to No.11, later plate-glass casements to No.13 and C20 imitation sashes to No.15. Prominent fluted modillion brackets carrying corniced wooden gutter. Each house has corniced roof stacks to front and rear. INTERIOR: each house has moulded dado rails and cornices, panelled doors and windows in architraves to halls and main rooms; open-well staircase with plain balusters, moulded newels and swept grip handrails. Modelled on the slightly earlier neighbouring range Nos.3-9 (qv). Forms a group with the slightly later balconied terrace in Pelham Road (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 34O; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: 1972-: NO.119; Grimsby Borough Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: 119: 1972).

Listing NGR: TA2649508906