Brighowgate House (Salvation Army Hostel)

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2608NE BRIGHOWGATE
699-1/26/18 (South East side)
23/07/92 Brighowgate House (Salvation Army
Hostel)

GV II

Childrens' home, now Salvation Army hostel. 1913 by William
Wells of Grimsby, senior assistant to HC Scaping; Wilkinson
and Houghton Ltd, contractors, for the Board of Guardians.
Converted c1955. Brown brick in English bond. Green slate
roof. Queen Anne Revival style. E-shaped on plan with bedrooms
and day-rooms in main ranges and central rear kitchen and
dining-room range flanked by 2 courtyards.
EXTERIOR: front is 22-window range, arranged 3:8:4:4:3, with
off-centre and end sections projecting. Pair of entrances to
bays 11 and 16 in the angles flanking the off-centre section.
Moulded brick plinth, raised brick quoins. Ground floor: the
off-centre section has a 4-window canted bay flanked by single
sashes, the recessed 8-bay section to left has two 3-window
canted bays flanked by single sashes, the 4-bay section to
right a single similar canted bay and flanking sashes, and the
end sections 3 sashes. The canted bays have moulded wood
cornices and flat roofs. All windows are sashes with glazing
bars in flush wood architraves with corniced stone sills
beneath rubbed-brick cambered arches. Entrances have steps to
recessed panelled doors beneath overlights with
diamond-pattern glazing, bold door surrounds with rusticated
brick piers, plain capitals and large carved acanthus brackets
carrying moulded hoods with panelled soffits. Internal porches
with half-glazed inner doors with diamond-pattern glazing bars
above fielded panels. Segmental pedimented metal plaque beside
the left-hand entrance with winged cherub's head and relief
inscription recording building details. 4-course brick
first-floor band. Deep modillioned eaves cornice with corniced
gutter. Prominent downpipes with dated rainwater heads.
Mansard roof with dormers to each bay fitted with 6/6 sashes
and alternating triangular and segmental pediments, the
projecting off-centre and outer bays with triple sashes. Pair
of tall stacks flanking central section, each with plinth,
frieze and corniced ashlar cap; similar wall stacks to rear.
Left return, 9 bays, arranged 3:3:3, with 3-bay projecting
section to right towards the Brighowgate front: single similar
entrance, fenestration and rainwater goods. Right return: 8
bays, arranged 3:3:2:, has similar though reversed arrangement
to left return.

Rear has similar fenestration but the dormers are without
pediments; outer wings here have fire escapes up to tripartite
attic doorways with flanking sashes. Lower 2-storey central
courtyard range has hipped roof.
INTERIOR: largely plain and utilitarian. Originally built with
matching boys' and girls' sections to left and right, with
first-floor dormitories. The latter were divided into smaller
rooms on conversion to a hostel c1955. Further alterations in
1992-3.
HISTORY: usually attributed to Herbert Scaping, the building
was designed by William Wells, who at the time was Scaping's
principal assistant, and there are similarities with Wells'
Waterproof Clothing Factory in Robinson Street East (qv).
Forms an interesting and marked contrast to the earlier and
more austere "Fisher Lads" Home in Victor Street (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 340; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.114; Grimsby Planning
Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council:
1972-: NO.114).




Listing NGR: TA2664908954

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Sources

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

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