Grimsby College of Art and Design is a Grade II listed building in the North East Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1995. School, college.

Grimsby College of Art and Design

WRENN ID
twisted-balcony-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North East Lincolnshire
Constituency
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes MP: Melanie Onn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1995
Type
School, college
Address
Grimsby College of Art and Design, Eleanor Street
OS grid reference
TA 277 095
Coordinates
53.56726, -0.07314
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grimsby College of Art and Design is a school building, constructed in 1894 by HC Scaping of Grimsby, with Hewins and Goodhand serving as builders for the Great Grimsby School Board. The building is built of red brick in English bond and English garden wall bond, featuring sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof. It is designed in a Flemish style and has an approximately rectangular plan.

The exterior presents three storeys and is arranged with seven bays, organized 2:1:1:1:2, with a projecting three-bay central section and two-bay side wings. A moulded brick plinth, flush ashlar bands, and moulded ashlar string courses punctuate the facade. The central section's ground floor features five cross-windows beneath rusticated arches with tall fluted keystones and raised apron panels. A marble foundation plaque, dated October 29, 1894, is positioned below the central window. A slate plaque by Philip Pape commemorates burials of former school members. An 1894 marble plaque within a carved ashlar surround identifies the building as Winterigham Higher Grade School, listing School Board members, the architect, and builders. The first floor has paired narrow windows in the centre bay, flanked by tripartite windows with central cross windows, and a shaped carved stone panel with remnants of the town seal below a second-floor window. Coped parapets adorn the centre bay, topped with a brick pier and ashlar cap with a ball finial. The side bays have coped, stepped gables with corner piers and ornate centrepieces featuring corbelled pilasters, moulded cornices, and ashlar panels with medallions in carved surrounds, all topped with ball finials. Wings have segmental-arched staircase windows with keystones and hoodmoulds. All windows feature moulded wood reveals, ovolo mullions and transoms, glazing bars, segmental brick arches with fluted ashlar keystones, and hoodmoulds. A moulded ashlar eaves cornice runs along the top, and prominent downpipes with shaped rainwater-heads are present. A hipped roof is finished with finials, and a central octagonal cupola rises, topped with a tall onion dome and needle finial.

The interior of the building has not been inspected.

Local climate

Grimsby College of Art and Design 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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