Millfields

GRIMSBY

TA2608SE BARGATE 699-1/29/9 (East side) No.53 Millfields

GV II

House, now hotel. 1879 for Robert Cook, chemist. Minor late C20 alterations; conservatory addition of 1993. Red brick with ashlar dressings; concrete tile roof. Jacobethan style. Rectangular on plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Wide central entrance porch flanked by rectangular ground-floor bay windows; first-floor central bay breaks forward. Porch has tripartite entrance with Ionic columns carrying keyed round arches with ornate floral relief carvings in the spandrels. Round-headed inner entrance with half-glazed door and fanlight in ashlar surround. Flanking bays have plinth, 3-light mullioned windows with plate-glass sashes. Continuous cornice and balustrade at first-floor level, interrupted above porch by oriel window with narrow sashes. Side bays have 3-light mullioned windows in quoined surrounds. Continuous ashlar entablature at eaves level with moulded cornice. Ashlar parapet to side bays with scrollwork relief panels. Central bay has balustrade above oriel and a shaped gable with a carved dated cartouche, moulded coping and ball finials. Hipped roof. Partly projecting side-wall stacks with corniced caps and tall elaborate pots. Right return has full-height canted bay with balustraded parapet. INTERIOR: entrance hall with panelled doors in architraves with ornate overdoors; polychrome tile floor; moulded arch to staircase hall with cantilevered wooden staircase and panelled pine ceiling. One of the best surviving large houses of this period in the Grimsby area. (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126; Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126).

Listing NGR: TA2658708363