The Corporation Arms

The Corporation Arms is a late 19th-century public house and former music hall situated on Freeman Street and Nelson Street in Grimsby. The building is constructed of colourwashed red brick with stone dressings, featuring a marble and wood front to the ground floor. It has a Welsh slate roof. The building is rectangular with a canted corner projecting onto the street.

The main range is three storeys high with three bays facing Freeman Street, one bay at the corner, and two bays facing Nelson Street, along with a single-storey, single-window section to the left. The ground floor features a continuous public-house front surround with a marble plinth and base up to the sill band, carved and fluted pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, carved dosserets, a modillioned cornice, and a hood. Mirrored reveals are present on the windows. A former corner entrance is blocked. The Freeman Street entrance has a recessed half-glazed panelled door with a three-pane stained-glass overlight. A similar entrance is located on Nelson Street. The pub windows include two to Freeman Street and three to Nelson Street, with a relief panel between the two windows on Nelson Street's right. These are wide, three-light plate-glass windows fitted with column mullions and round-arched glazing bars to the upper sections, with frosted lower panes displaying etched designs of the Grimsby Corporation Arms within ornate borders. A canted wooden oriel window is situated at the corner, featuring a pilastered surround, bracketed cornice and a hipped roof. Flanking bays have two-over-two sash windows, each beneath a keyed, cambered wedge lintel; smaller, similar windows are located on the second floor. A moulded wooden eaves board is present with bold scrolled modillion brackets, as is a corniced end stack to the right.

The interior retains original moulded plaster cornices and chimney pieces. A Smoke Room, located on Nelson Street, features fielded panelling with fluted pilasters with carved bases and capitals, a pulvinated frieze, a dentilled cornice, a carved pilastered chimney piece, and fitted bench seating. The upper room was used as a music hall in the 1880s.