Little Grimsby Hall

Little Grimsby Hall is a small country house built around 1700, with a minor addition of a billiard room from the 19th century. The house is constructed of red brick, featuring orange brick quoins, window reveals, and heads, along with painted stone dressings. It has a deeply hipped plain tiled roof and two wall stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a seven-bay front arranged in a 2:3:2 pattern, with the central three bays slightly advanced. It includes a plinth, a moulded first-floor band, and a moulded and dentillated wooden eaves cornice.

The entrance features an eight-panelled door set up four steps, surrounded by a bolection moulded stone frame with fluted brackets that support a broken scrolled pediment with plain terminals. This is flanked by three tall glazing bar sash windows. On the first floor, there are seven similar windows, all with segmental brick heads and keyblocks. The roof has three dormers, with the central one featuring a segmental pediment and the others having triangular pediments, all equipped with glazing bar sashes.

Inside, the front left room boasts a dentillated cornice, a fireplace with a rococo surround and ornate mantle, and is flanked by semi-circular headed niches, along with full-height deeply moulded panelling. The entrance hall has full-height polished panelling with Doric pilasters and triglyph friezes on all four sides, and the floor is stone flagged in a diamond pattern. The broad dogleg staircase has three knopped balusters on the tread, consisting of a central fluted baluster flanked by twisted balusters. The moulded handrail is ramped and ends on a fluted newel, with the open string featuring elaborately carved panels and dado panelling.

On the first floor, there is a central drawing room with full-height panelling and an exquisite rococo plaster ceiling. All first-floor bedrooms also have full-height panelling. The house was likely built for Captain John Nelthorpe, and historical records indicate that it was constructed during Queen Anne's reign. In the 1920s, the house was home to Mrs. Wintringham, the first English female Member of Parliament for Louth.