The Corporation Arms

GRIMSBY

TA2710SE FREEMAN STREET 699-1/12/33 (West side) No.88 The Corporation Arms

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Includes: The Corporation Arms NELSON STREET. Public House and former music hall. Late C19. Colourwashed red brick with stone dressings; marble and wood public-house front to ground floor. Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan, with a canted angle to the street corner. EXTERIOR: 3-storey main range with 3 bays to Freeman Street, a single bay to the corner, and 2 bays to Nelson Street with a single-storey, single-window section to the left. Ground floor has continuous public-house front surround with marble plinth and base to sill band level, carved and fluted pilasters, pulvinated frieze and carved dosserets, modillioned cornice and hood. Mirrored reveals to windows. Former corner entrance has double pilastered surround, doorway blocked. Entrance to Freeman Street has similar surround, recessed half-glazed panelled door with 3-pane stained-glass overlight. Similar entrance to Nelson Street. Pub window has 2 windows to Freeman Street, 3 windows to Nelson Street with a relief panel between the 2 windows to the right. All are wide 3-light plate-glass mullioned and transomed windows with column mullions and round-arched glazing bars to the upper sections; frosted lower panes with etched designs of Grimsby Corporation Arms in ornate borders. First floor has canted wooden oriel window at the corner with a pilastered surround, bracketed cornice and hipped roof. Flanking bays have 2/2 sashes with sills beneath keyed cambered wedge lintels. Smaller similar second-floor windows. Moulded wooden eaves board with bold scrolled modillion brackets. Corniced end stack to right. INTERIOR: retains original moulded plaster cornices and chimneypieces. Smoke Room to left, on Nelson Street, has fielded panelling with fluted pilasters with carved bases and capitals, pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice, carved pilastered chimneypiece and fitted bench seating. In the 1880s an upper room was used as a music hall. (Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 43-44).

Listing NGR: TA2765310111