Gardens Walls And Gateways To Coroners Courthouse

GRIMSBY

TA2608NE BRIGHOWGATE 699-1/26/20 (South East side) 31/10/74 Garden walls and gateways to Coroner's Courthouse (Formerly Listed as: BRIGHOWGATE (East side) The County Courthouse and Wall to west of the County Courthouse)

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Garden walls and gateway to former County Court and Police Station, now Coroner's Courthouse (qv). 1902 by HC Scaping of Grimsby for Lindsey County Court. Red brick with composite stone dressings. Edwardian Freestyle. Section to Brighowgate has moulded plinth, coped dwarf wall with stumps of iron railings. Main entrance has tall square-section rusticated piers with stone bands, cornice and obelisk finial with housings for former lamp brackets. Secondary entrance to right has rusticated piers with cornice and plain cap. Similar pier to far left, on street corner. Adjoining section of wall to right, along south-east boundary, has panels of coped walling ramped up between 8 square piers with moulded caps. Between this wall and the courthouse is a passage with entrances to front and rear. The front entrance has a board door beneath a moulded segmental arch with an elaborate keystone; the rear entrance has a shaped arch carrying an ornate cast-iron lamp base. Included for group value as part of a group with the Coroner's Courthouse (qv), and the sections of garden wall to the north, now in the garden of No.36 Brighowgate (qv). (Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: MAP).

Listing NGR: TA2660708919