Worsley House

TA 3009 SW CLEETHORPES POPLAR ROAD (north side)

5/21 No 113 (Worsley House)

GV II

House. 1857. Red brick in Flemish bond with grey brick and sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall front, service wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Narrower central bay recessed. Entrance has 2 stone steps to half-glazed panelled door with early C20 stained glass sailing ship design, beneath moulded cornice and stained glass overlight, rubbed-brick round arch with stepped ashlar keystone. Panelled roof of porch forms floor of segmental-bowed first floor balcony with foliate cast iron balustrade. Recessed 12-pane sashes in painted eared and shouldered surrounds with ashlar sills and keyed segmental arches. 2-course grey brick first-floor band. First floor central bay has sash with stained glass margin lights beneath keyed segmental arch, panelled soffit and panelled wooden ogee-arched head to recess. Plain eaves board. Hipped roof. Pair of corniced roof stacks. Left return has pair of 12-pane sashes to each floor beneath cambered arches. Interior. Entrance hall has moulded cornice, frieze and ceiling roses; basket-arched opening to stairhall with large scrolled acanthus - brackets, archivolt and panelled soffit; panelled doors in basket-arched archivolts. Open-well staircase with wreathed handrail, turned balusters and newel-post, scrolled tread-ends; stained glass stairwindow, moulded cornice to upper hall. Moulded cornices to ground-floor rooms, that to left with bold plasterwork frieze with swags of fruit. First floor rooms with cornices and original chimney pieces. Of interest as a very complete mid C19 house still in the Regency idiom.

Listing NGR: TA3041809215