Municipal Cemetery Lodge

GRIMSBY

TA2607SE SCARTHO ROAD 699-1/39/59 (East side) 09/02/98 Municipal Cemetery Lodge

GV II

Cemetery gate lodge. 1888 by EW Farebrother of Grimsby for Grimsby Corporation Cemetery Committee; C20 additions and alterations. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings; stuccoed upper storey with imitation half-timbering. Green slate roof. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: main range T-shaped, with entrance porch in north angle; later C19-early C20 extensions to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, irregular fenestration. North front, facing cemetery entrance, has single-window section to right and projecting gabled wing to left, with turreted entrance porch in angle. Chamfered plinth, continuous moulded string courses to ground floor at sill and lintel level. Porch has pointed arched doorway with moulded arch dying into chamfered jambs, hoodmould with carved stops, 2-fold half-glazed door with coloured glass panels. Window to right return of porch has moulded surround, hoodmould, carved stops, margin lights and coloured glass. Section to right has projecting ground-floor ashlar bay window with 3-light mullioned and transomed window, moulded cornice and hipped roof. Gabled section to left has twin 2-light cross-windows with moulded ashlar reveals and quoined surrounds. Ground-floor windows have wooden ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms, coloured leaded lights to upper sections. Moulded first-floor ashlar string course. Turret has cylindrical first-floor section with a pair of slit-lights in quoined surrounds with moulded reveals, string courses and brick relieving arches; moulded ashlar cornice, tall conical roof with wrought-iron finial. Remainder of first floor has rendering incised into squares containing curved lines. Wing to left has 3-light window with moulded mullions, architrave and bracketed sill; half-timbered gable, overhanging eaves with shaped brackets, moulded barge-boards, finial. Roof hipped and gabled, with exposed rafter-ends, crested ridge tiles. 2 ridge-stacks with corbelled brick and rendered caps. Right return has 2-light ashlar ground-floor window and gabled first-floor similar to north front; single-bay section slightly set back to right has 2-light ground-floor window and original 2-light first-floor mullioned window.

Left return has ground-floor ashlar bay window, half-timbered first floor, hipped roof; C20 addition. Rear has lower kitchen and outhouse extensions, half-dormers and hipped roofs. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms part of a group with the Municipal Cemetery chapel and gateway (qv). (Grimsby Planning Department: Scartho Road Cemetery Leaflets: Grimsby Borough Council: 1994-).

Listing NGR: TA2673107224