23 Bargate

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GRIMSBY

TA2608NW BARGATE
699-1/25/3 (East side)
No.23

GV II

House, now offices. 1854 for Dr Grange, Town Clerk, with later
C19 additions to rear. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh
slate roof. Castellated Gothic Revival style. Approximately
rectangular on plan: main early range has double-depth plan
with a 2-room, central entrance-hall front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Chamfered plinth,
setback buttresses and buttresses flanking central bay with
offsets at first-floor level. Steps to 4-centred arched
entrance with 2-fold board door with elaborate strap hinges in
ashlar surround beneath dripmould. Flanking ground-floor
canted bay windows with 5 narrow 4-centred arched lights with
stone mullions and glazing bars in chamfered reveals, beneath
dripmould and coped castellated parapets. First floor: central
2-light window and flanking 3-light windows, all with
wood-mullioned casements with pointed lights in chamfered
ashlar reveals. String course, coped castellated parapet with
the buttresses projecting as finials capped with ashlar
gablets. Hipped roof.
Pair of roof stacks with triple shafts linked by moulded
ashlar caps. One projecting stack to left and right returns,
each with a cogged brick cornice and triple shafts with a
central square shaft flanked by octagonal shafts, beneath a
moulded ashlar cap. Similar stacks to rear.
Left and right returns have similar buttresses and parapets to
front. Right return has chimneybreast to left, flanked by
slightly-projecting 4-light mullioned and transomed ashlar
windows beneath sloping stone roofs. Chimney breast has relief
plaque with cartouche in foiled surround. To right, a French
window with an overlight containing coloured glass arms. 2
first-floor single-light windows in ashlar surrounds to left,
later casements to right beneath lintels. Section set back to
far right has a partly blocked 4-centred arched doorway and a
first-floor oriel window with moulded ashlar base and
mullioned window with stained glass.
Left return has similar chimneybreast flanked on the right by
a semi-circular bow window with wood mullions and transoms and
5 leaded lights beneath a moulded cornice and flat roof, and
on the left a square brick ground-floor bay with a 3-light
mullioned and transomed leaded window.
To the left, a projecting square turret, 3 storeys high, with

plain windows to the first floor, slit lights to the second
floor, corbelled brick cornice with imitation machicolations,
ashlar string course and coped castellated parapet.
Beyond to the left, a kitchen wing extension with a
ground-floor bay window and entrance porch with a pointed
chamfered doorway and coped castellated parapet; first-floor
sill string course, sashes with glazing bars, leaded windows
to first floor.
INTERIOR: entrance and staircase hall have panelled walls,
polychrome tiled floor, open-well cantilevered wooden
staircase, 4-centred arched doorways. Front rooms have ornate
C17-style plasterwork ceilings with central roses and
pendants. Original stone and marble chimneypieces to main
rooms. Kitchen retains original cooking range.
To the rear is a former garden folly tower and gateway in a
similar Gothic Revival style (qv): see under Brighowgate.
The C20 temporary office additions to the south are not of
special interest.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.120;
Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1972-: NO.120).



Listing NGR: TA2649308852

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