Fairlawn (St James Choir School)

GRIMSBY

TA2608NW PELHAM ROAD 699-1/25/51 (South side) Fairlawn (St James' Choir School)

GV II

House, now school. 1885, for EM Marshall, with later C19 additions. Red brick with slate roof. L-shaped on plan, with main east garden front facing Bargate, and north entrance front facing Pelham Road. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; east front of 2 bays, symmetrical. Pair of full-height square bay windows, each with tripartite ground-floor French windows flanked by narrow side lights in Ionic pilastered surround. String course, diaper-work panel at first-floor level with dentilled sill string course above. Pairs of sashes to first floor, with arched glazing bars, beneath flat arches with fluted keystones carrying relief panels. Dentilled pediments with diaper-work tympana and taller projecting central sections with angle pilasters, relief panels with Marshall cypher, and segmental pediments with urn finials. Crested ridge tiles, ornate end stacks. Later plainer addition to left with sashes. North front has steps to projecting single-storey porch with angle pilasters, keyed round-arched entrance with double board doors, moulded cornice and triangular pediment of ornately-moulded brick. To the left is a gabled section with a projecting external chimneystack bearing a segmental pedimented moulded brick date plaque, a second relief panel above, panelled chimneyshaft, string courses and a pedimented gable with diaper-work tympanum. INTERIOR: has ornate wooden staircase, moulded plasterwork to main rooms. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339-340; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.117; Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.117).

Listing NGR: TA2638408934