42-45b Alexandra Road
42-45B, ALEXANDRA ROAD, CLEETHORPES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346980
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 42-45b Alexandra Road
- Statutory Address:
- 42-45B, ALEXANDRA ROAD, CLEETHORPES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1346980
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 42-45b Alexandra Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42-45B, ALEXANDRA ROAD, CLEETHORPES
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:
- 42-45B, ALEXANDRA ROAD, CLEETHORPES
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 30690 08839
Details
TA 3008 NE CLEETHORPES ALEXANDRA ROAD (south-west side)
8/3 Nos 42-45B (inclusive)
GV II
Terrace of 4 shops and houses. Late C19 with later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond (whitewashed to No 42/3, rendered to No 45B), with Welsh slate roof. Cast and wrought iron arcade and balcony. 3 storeys, 8 bays: 2 bays to each house. Full length pavement arcade carrying first-floor balcony, with wide single bay to each house and narrower bays to entrances in centre and at left and right ends. Piers with tall moulded pedestals, bulbous foliate bases to fluted columns with foliate capitals supporting moulded upper sections with ornate openwork basket arches to narrower outer bays and similar brackets to inner bays (missing to no 45, obscured by nameboard to no 45A). Plain frieze. Ornate Arts and Crafts-style balcony railings with delicate scrollwork and floral motifs, frieze, moulded top rail and square column principals with moulded bases and shafts, foliate capitals and ball finials; similar railings at right angles between houses. Ground floor: pair of doors to centre (nos 43AB and 44), single doors to left end (no 4aAB) and right end (no 458), with shopwindows between. Both doors and windows in wood surround with panelled pilasters, fluted consoles, moulded cornice and frieze. The 3 original entrances to left (nos 42AB, 43AB, 44) with doors and overlights in panelled reveals (original 4 panelled door to 44, others C20). No 42/3 (Information Centre) has unsympathetic C20 doors and 2-light window beneath boxed-in cornice. No 45 (Take Five) has C2O 4-light window beneath C19 cornice. No 45A (Tom's Bargain Centre) has C2O 6-light shopwindow. Early C20 entrance to no 458 to right has panelled door and Gothic-style overlight in reveal. First floor: each house has a balcony door and plain overlight beneath a moulded ashlar lintel, and a wooden canted bay window with pilasters, entablature with plain frieze, moulded cornice and hood. No 42/3 has C20 glazed door to left, half-glazed panelled door to right, C20 glazing to bays. No 44 has original half-glazed panelled door and plate-glass sashes to bay. No 458 has blocked door, original sashes to bay. Second floor: each house has a pair of windows beneath moulded lintels. No 42 and no 458 have unsympathetic C20 glazing, no 44 with original plate-glass sashes. Nos 44 and 458 have original moulded wooden eaves brackets flanking window lintels, moulded sections of brackets missing from no 42/3; plain eaves board throughout. 3 ridge stacks with bases, single brick bands, modillioned brick cornices. Together with neighbouring No 41 (Woodliffe Villa) (qv), the best-preserved balconied buildings on the seafront.
Listing NGR: TA3069008839
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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