Former Air Raid Shelter to Rear of Numbers 28 and 30
FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30, 28 AND 30, YARRA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103483
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Air Raid Shelter to Rear of Numbers 28 and 30
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30, 28 AND 30, YARRA ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-07-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/05031/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103483
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Former Air Raid Shelter to Rear of Numbers 28 and 30
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30, 28 AND 30, YARRA ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER AIR RAID SHELTER TO REAR OF NUMBERS 28 AND 30, 28 AND 30, YARRA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 30692 08677
Details
TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES YARRA ROAD (north side, off)
8/26 Former air-raid shelter to rear of Nos 28 and 30 II
Air-raid shelter, now garage. 1916 for Joseph Forrester. Concrete, incorporating section of brick garden walls on north and south sides; turf-covered steel- reinforced concrete roof. Rectangular on plan, approximately 4 metres by 5 metres; single room incorporating two entrance lobbies or cubicles. Blocked narrow original door in north wall. Inserted C20 garage door in west wall. North and south sides each have a pair of ornate terracotta ventilator grilles. Low segmental- arched roof. Interior: Basket-arched tunnel-vaulted room with a blast-proof entrance lobby in the north-east corner, both approximately 1 metre square on plan, with the lower sections of their curved walls removed; the north-east lobby with brick blocking to the former door in the north wall. All walls are approximately. 0.5 metre thick. Built as a private shelter against Zeppelin bombs after a series of raids on the town in April 1916, the most serious of which killed 31 soldiers billeted in a nearby chapel. Forrester, a borough councillor and chemist, achieved fame for his Forrester's Ferric Food tonic, manufactured at his nearby shop fronting onto Alexandra Road (now demolished). M Hart, Cleethorpes and the Meggies, 1981, pp 29-30; C Ekberg, The Book of Cleethorpes, 1986 p 96.
Listing NGR: TA3069208677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hart, M, Cleethorpes and the Meggies, (1981), 29-30
Ekberg, C, The Book of Cleethorpes, (1986), 96
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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