Municipal Cemetery Lodge

The Municipal Cemetery Lodge, built in 1888 by E.W. Farebrother of Grimsby for the Grimsby Corporation Cemetery Committee, stands as an example of Gothic Revival architecture. Later additions and alterations were made in the 20th century. The lodge is constructed of red brick in English bond, with ashlar dressings, a stuccoed upper storey featuring imitation half-timbering, and a green slate roof.

The building has a T-shaped plan, with an entrance porch in the north angle and later 19th and early 20th century extensions to the rear. The two-storey exterior exhibits irregular fenestration. The north front, which faces the cemetery entrance, features a single-window section to the right and a projecting gabled wing to the left, with a turreted entrance porch in the angle. A chamfered plinth is present, along with continuous moulded string courses to the ground floor at sill and lintel level. The porch’s pointed arched doorway has a moulded arch that blends into chamfered jambs, a hoodmould with carved stops, and a two-fold, half-glazed door with coloured glass panels. A window to the right return of the porch features a moulded surround, hoodmould, carved stops, margin lights, and coloured glass.

To the right of the porch is a projecting ground-floor ashlar bay window with a three-light mullioned and transomed window, a moulded cornice, and a hipped roof. The gabled section to the left has twin two-light cross-windows with moulded ashlar reveals and quoined surrounds. Ground-floor windows have wooden ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms, with coloured leaded lights in the upper sections. A moulded ashlar string course runs along the first floor. The turret has a cylindrical first-floor section with a pair of slit-lights in quoined surrounds with moulded reveals, string courses, and brick relieving arches. The turret also features a moulded ashlar cornice and a tall conical roof with a wrought-iron finial. The remainder of the first floor displays rendering incised into squares containing curved lines. A wing to the left has a three-light window with moulded mullions, an architrave, and a bracketed sill, along with a half-timbered gable, overhanging eaves with shaped brackets, moulded barge-boards, and a finial. The roof is hipped and gabled, with exposed rafter-ends and crested ridge tiles. Two ridge-stacks are present, with corbelled brick and rendered caps.

The right return features a two-light ashlar ground-floor window and a gabled first floor similar to the north front. A single-bay section slightly set back to the right has a two-light ground-floor window and an original two-light first-floor mullioned window. The left return has a ground-floor ashlar bay window, a half-timbered first floor, and a hipped roof, with a 20th-century addition. The rear of the lodge contains lower kitchen and outhouse extensions, half-dormers, and hipped roofs. The interior was not inspected at the time of listing. The lodge forms a group with the Municipal Cemetery chapel and gateway.