The Pestle And Mortar Public House

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE OLD MARKET PLACE 699-1/21/47 (East side) Nos.5 AND 6 The Pestle and Mortar public house

GV II

Public house. 1917 by HC Scaping of Grimsby, for Hadley's Brewery. Brick with composite stone facing to ground floor, imitation timber-framing and plaster infill to upper floors. Slate roof. Tudor Revival style, with ornate West Midlands-style timber framing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays to first and second floors. Ground floor has 4 openings divided by plain rectangular piers. Entrance to far right with recessed 2-fold partly glazed Tudor-arched door beneath leaded-pane overlight with 3 cinquefoiled lights. To left, 3 recessed panels with plinth and recessed 3-light windows with boldly moulded sills and cinquefoiled lights, all with leaded glass, the outer lights with 2 glazing bars, the central lights with stained glass heraldic motifs. Above this a full-width half-timbered frieze with C20 name-board. Modillioned first-floor jetty with carved frieze. Upper storeys have full-height canted bays topped with a modillioned cornice and coped parapet, also canted. The wider central bay, flanked by herringbone timbered panels, has 4-light windows to each storey; the side bays, flanked by timber-framed pilaster strips, have 3-light windows. All windows have cinquefoiled lights and leaded glass incorporating stained-glass heraldic motifs. Above and below the windows are decorative framed panels incorporating quatrefoil and cross motifs. Parapet has similar framing with relief-carved shields at the top of the pilasters, bearing various Grimsby Arms. INTERIOR: staircase hall and large single rooms to each floor, all with C17-style wall panelling with a modillioned cornice, panelled internal porches with Tudor-arched doors, panelled ceilings with moulded foliate cornices. Staircase hall has open-well cantilevered staircase with carved newels, panelled string and column balusters; large circular roof light with radial glazing and tinted glass. This is an extremely well-preserved early C20 public house with all its internal features surviving intact. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest:

Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.23; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.8).

Listing NGR: TA2675109234