Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse is a Grade II listed building in the North East Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1974. Garden wall, gateway.

Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse

WRENN ID
calm-moat-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Lincolnshire
Constituency
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes MP: Melanie Onn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1974
Type
Garden wall, gateway
Address
Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse, Brighowgate
OS grid reference
TA 266 089
Coordinates
53.56165, -0.08998
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and gateways to the former County Court and Police Station, now known as the Coroner's Courthouse, were built in 1902 by HC Scaping of Grimsby for Lindsey County Court. The structure is made of red brick with composite stone dressings and is designed in the Edwardian Freestyle.

The section facing Brighowgate features a moulded plinth and a coped dwarf wall with remnants of iron railings. The main entrance is marked by tall, square-section rusticated piers that include stone bands, a cornice, and an obelisk finial, which has housings for former lamp brackets. To the right, there is a secondary entrance with rusticated piers, a cornice, and a plain cap. A similar pier is located to the far left at the street corner.

An adjoining section of wall along the south-east boundary has panels of coped walling that rise between eight square piers with moulded caps. Between this wall and the courthouse, there is a passage with entrances at both the front and rear. The front entrance features a board door beneath a moulded segmental arch with an elaborate keystone, while the rear entrance has a shaped arch that supports an ornate cast-iron lamp base.

These structures are included for their group value as part of a collection with the Coroner's Courthouse and the sections of garden wall to the north, which are now part of the garden of No. 36 Brighowgate.

Local climate

Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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