Yarborough Hotel

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE BETHLEHEM STREET
699-1/21/14 (South side)
28/11/73 No.29
Yarborough Hotel

GV II

Includes: Yarborough Hotel STATION YARD.
Hotel. 1851 for second Earl of Yarborough and The Royal Dock
Company. Enlarged 1891 for the Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway Company. C20 alterations. Red brick with
ashlar and painted brick dressings. Welsh slate roof.
Italianate style.
PLAN: approximately rectangular on plan, with slightly
recessed taller L-shaped ballroom and staircase hall section
to south (facing the railway station), incorporating an
entrance porch in the south-west angle.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic and basement. Main range has a
5-bay symmetrical front to Bethlehem Street and a 9-bay
symmetrical front to Station Yard with a taller narrow 3-bay
section to its right with a porch set back in an angle to the
far right. Rusticated quoins, plinth, sill string courses
throughout. Basement has segmental-arched openings and raised
brick panels.
Bethlehem Street front has tall central entrance with C20
double doors in a C19 pilasterd surround with bracketed hood
and a plain brick panel above, all within a tall pilastered
surround with hood. Tall ground-floor 2/4 sashes in
segmental-headed architraves, the windows to the left with
blocked lower sections. Similar shorter sashes to first floor
with bracketed sill string course. Round-headed sashes with
glazing bars to second floor with sill band. All windows in
painted moulded architraves. Elaborate eaves frieze with
dentils and chequered brickwork; deep moulded cornice. Attic
has small segmental-headed 2/2 sashes with bold brick panels
between, moulded cornice and blocking course. Plain roof
stacks. Left return has a large panel at second-floor level
bearing hotel name.
Station Yard front: 9-bay section to left has similar details
to Bethlehem Street front, with a central door in a Doric
pilastered surround with entablature, hood and blocking
course; panelled double door. The 3 ground-floor windows to
the far left are tall 2/4 sashes, the remainder are 2/2 sashes
with panelled brick aprons. The taller, slightly recessed
section to the right, added 1891, has similar details and
similar windows to ground and second floors. The first floor

has tall elliptical-headed windows in architraves with
segmental-headed 2/4 sashes and oval lights above. Attic
similar to adjoining section but taller, with high blocking
course and ornate corniced stacks. Recessed angle to right has
similar fenestration but irregular, and a projecting 2-storey
porch with an elaborate ashlar entrance.
Porch has 5 steps with balustrade wall and short section of
ornate wrought-iron railings to right; panelled double doors
beneath moulded segmental arch with festoon reliefs in the
spandrels; pilastered surround with fluted Doric pilasters,
dentilled cornice and hood with tall blocking course bearing
panel inscribed "HOTEL"; brick first floor with a pair of
small elliptical-headed windows, each with 4 panes below an
oval light, coped parapet; right return has window in
architrave with carved shell hood. Left return of main range
has irregular fenestration and a chimneybreast corbelled out
from the first floor bearing a panel inscribed "THE YARBORO'
HOTEL".
INTERIOR: main south-west entrance staircase hall (entered
from porch) has carved window surrounds and a cantilevered
stone staircase with heavy Gothic-style newel and cast-iron
balustrade with wheel motif. Foyer to west Station Yard
entrance has arched openings, secondary staircase with
cast-iron balustrade and swept handrail. Ground-floor function
rooms (those to Bethlehem Street front opened out into a
single room) have ornate plasterwork cornices.
South-west section has ground-floor room with pedimented
panels; first-floor ballroom with a pair of former entrances
with overdoors and fanlights, panelled plasterwork ceiling
with scrollwork, flowers, fruit, and frieze with urns and
masks. Corridors have C20 suspended ceilings, probably with
original cornices surviving above.
The Royal Dock Company was taken over by the Manchester,
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company in 1980.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 340; Grimsby Borough Council: Top
Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NOS 6 & 7; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-).


Listing NGR: TA2678209180

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 340

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