Pettits Butchers

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE BETHLEHEM STREET 699-1/21/15 (East side) Nos.33 AND 35 Pettit's Butchers

GV II

Shop and house. 1886. Brick, painted to first floor, with Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic, 4 first-floor windows. Shop front to right has plinth, central entrance with half-glazed panelled door beneath large overlight, single plate-glass window to each side with moulded sill and a glazed-tile panel below bearing a raised painted nameboard. Above each window is a perforated iron ventilation grille. Passage entrance to left has moulded segmental arch and recessed roller-blind. Full-width wooden surround to ground floor with passage door and shop window each flanked by pilasters, the 2 outer pilasters carrying bold fluted brackets surmounted by ball finials. Frieze with painted nameboard and hood with folding canopy. First-floor sill band, 2 sashes beneath keyed segmental arches alternating with wooden canted bay windows with moulded sill bands, pulvinated friezes, moulded cornices and tented roofs. All windows are 6/1 sashes except for 2/1 side sashes to canted bays. Deep coved and dentilled plaster eaves cornice. Pair of segmental-roofed 2-light dormer windows beneath moulded arches with small finials. End stacks. INTERIOR: shop has glazed patterned wall tiles. A good example of a late Victorian butcher's shop with well preserved shop front and tiled interior. (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.19; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.19; Grimsby Planning Department: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.11).

Listing NGR: TA2680409202