Grinkle Park Flats, Circa 190 Metres North Of Grinkle Park Hotel

LOFTUS GRINKLE LANE NZ 71 SW (off east side), Easington. 3/18 Grinkle Park Flats, c.l90m north of Grinkle Park Hotel. - II Stable block.c.1875, probably by Alfred Waterhouse, for Sir Charles Mark Palmer, shipbuilder of Jarrow; now partly converted to flats. Rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical, on 4 sides of open courtyard. Entrance front: 2 storeys, 13 bays, including 3-bay gabled centre and slightly lower 2-bay ends. Wide central segmental-pointed-arched carriage entrance holding boarded double doors under stopped hoodmould carved with initials:C.M.P. Roundels in spandrels have sculptured wyverns. 4-bay segmental-pointed arcading to left and right. Bays flanking entrance are narrower and hold boarded doors, overlights and blocked heads with trefoil ornament. Other bays hold sash windows and quatrefoil lights in roundels. Sash windows on first floor. Tripartite sash window, with blocked pointed-arched central head holding trefoil ornament, under stopped hoodmould, in gable. All windows have moulded lintels and battered sills with sill bands. Palmer family motto on carved ribbon below gable window. Coat of arms in apex of gable with ball and stem finial. Moulded consoles and corbels at eaves. Ends have similar single and paired windows. Hipped and gabled roofs with ridge stacks, those flanking and to right of gable truncated. 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled hayloft on east side of courtyard, has central boarded door, altered ground-floor windows under relieving arches, central loft door and hinged crane, first-floor roundels, and clock in circular opening in gable. Wall removed from single-storey coach house on south side of courtyard. Other ranges around courtyard are single-storey stables.

Listing NGR: NZ7414114963