Number 18 And Attached Walls And Railings

GRIMSBY

TA2710SW CLEETHORPE ROAD 699-1/11/25 (South side) No.18 and attached walls and railings

GV II

Offices and attached walls and railings. Walls and railings of 1879; office of 1913 by JB Ball. Office in banded limestone ashlar and red brick. Edwardian Classical style. Plain tile roof. L-shaped on plan, with entrance and single room to front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, single bay. Gable facing. Moulded plinth. Entrance to left has recessed door and overlight with margin lights in tall moulded ashlar surround with deep frieze, moulded cornice and shallow hood. Large window to right with 3 plate-glass lights in ashlar surround with moulded reveal, sill and ashlar apron, deep frieze and cornice similar to door. First floor has three 6/6 sashes in ashlar surrounds with moulded reveals, sills, aprons, cornices and hoods, the central window below a tympanum. Pair of slit-lights above. Gable with moulded coping, shaped kneelers. Left return has pair of ground-floor casements to right in surrounds with deep frieze and hood similar to front door. Narrow gabled section projecting to left has tripartite ground-floor window with casements in similar ashlar surrounds; first-floor triple window in ashlar surrounds with sills, aprons and hood similar to front, banded and coped gable. Right return has 3 windows in similar ashlar surrounds; side-wall stack corbelled-out from first floor with panelled and banded shaft, ashlar cap. Similar corbelled stack to rear. INTERIOR: panelled entrance lobby, corniced ceilings, etc. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: walls and railings: red brick walls and piers with ashlar coping and cast-iron railings. 2 sections: short curved section attached to front left of office building; longer straight section attached to rear right, running alongside the Customs House (qv). Both sections have a dwarf brick wall with a chamfered ashlar plinth, a square-section end-pier with a low pyramidal ashlar cap, cast-iron railings with alternating barley-twist and plain bars, shaped finials and points above a single top rail, the rear railings also with square-section principals with ball finials. These walls and railings formed part of the enclosure for the gardens which housed the Albert Statue (qv), now resited

nearby on Royal Street in front of the Docks Office (qv). Included for group value with the Customs House (qv). (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.92).

Listing NGR: TA2745110414