The Manor House Including Former Stables And Coach House

GRIMSBY

TA2310SW COOKS LANE, Great Coates 699-1/9/97 (West side) The Manor House including former stables and coach-house

GV II

House. Mid C18 with 1878 and C20 alterations and additions, including remodelling of south front and widening of rear wing. Probably for the Sutton estate. Red brick, stuccoed and incised in imitation of ashlar to south and east fronts. Slate roof. T-shaped in plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front with rear wing incorporating central corridor, dining room and kitchen; adjoining stable and coach house range to rear, now part of house. EXTERIOR: south front of 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth, rusticated quoins. Stone to far left corner of plinth inscribed "18 EJS 78". Steps to recessed tripartite entrance with 6-panelled door, half-glazed panels and overlight, in chamfered reveal beneath cambered wedge lintel with stepped keystone. Ground-floor canted bay windows with central 2/2 sashes and flanking 1/1 sashes in chamfered segmental-headed reveals, moulded wood cornices, flat roofs. 2/2 first-floor sashes in flush wood architraves with sills beneath segmental arches. Stepped eaves. Hipped roof. Banded side-wall stacks. Right return: main range has quoins, irregular fenestration. Four 6/6 ground-floor sashes, three 3/6 first-floor sashes, all in flush wood architraves beneath segmental arches. Hipped roof, single ridge stack. Lower 2-storey stable and coach-house range set back to right: board door beneath lintel, 2 horizontal sliding sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental arches, double board door to former coach house to far right. Signs of blocked openings to first floor. Central T-plan ridge stack. INTERIOR: good late C19 chimneypieces, one of carved grey marble, another with an Adamesque carved wood surround, another to rear with Art Nouveau relief design; open-well main staircase with turned balusters; early C19 back staircase with stick balusters and corniced handrail; early C18 ovolo-moulded beam to kitchen, boxed-in spine beam to adjoining dining room. (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.130; Grimsby Planning Department: Great Coates Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.130).

Listing NGR: TA2347010248