Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse
GARDENS WALLS AND GATEWAYS TO CORONERS COURTHOUSE, BRIGHOWGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379382
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse
- Statutory Address:
- GARDENS WALLS AND GATEWAYS TO CORONERS COURTHOUSE, BRIGHOWGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379382
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gardens Walls and Gateways to Coroners Courthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARDENS WALLS AND GATEWAYS TO CORONERS COURTHOUSE, BRIGHOWGATE
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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:
- GARDENS WALLS AND GATEWAYS TO CORONERS COURTHOUSE, BRIGHOWGATE
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 26607 08919
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2608NE BRIGHOWGATE
699-1/26/20 (South East side)
31/10/74 Garden walls and gateways to
Coroner's Courthouse
(Formerly Listed as:
BRIGHOWGATE
(East side)
The County Courthouse and Wall to
west of the County Courthouse)
GV II
Garden walls and gateway to former County Court and Police
Station, now Coroner's Courthouse (qv). 1902 by HC Scaping of
Grimsby for Lindsey County Court. Red brick with composite
stone dressings. Edwardian Freestyle. Section to Brighowgate
has moulded plinth, coped dwarf wall with stumps of iron
railings.
Main entrance has tall square-section rusticated piers with
stone bands, cornice and obelisk finial with housings for
former lamp brackets. Secondary entrance to right has
rusticated piers with cornice and plain cap. Similar pier to
far left, on street corner. Adjoining section of wall to
right, along south-east boundary, has panels of coped walling
ramped up between 8 square piers with moulded caps. Between
this wall and the courthouse is a passage with entrances to
front and rear. The front entrance has a board door beneath a
moulded segmental arch with an elaborate keystone; the rear
entrance has a shaped arch carrying an ornate cast-iron lamp
base.
Included for group value as part of a group with the Coroner's
Courthouse (qv), and the sections of garden wall to the north,
now in the garden of No.36 Brighowgate (qv).
(Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: MAP).
Listing NGR: TA2660708919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 478761
- 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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