Clee Hall Farmhouse

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2908SW CLEE ROAD, Old Clee
699-1/34/110 (North side)
06/06/51 Clee Hall Farmhouse

GV II*

Formerly known as: Mordaunt Hall CLEE ROAD Old Clee.
House. Late C17 or earlier origins, with late C19-early C20
alterations and additions, including shaped gables and
entrance porches, for the Grant-Thorold Estate. Red brick
(early section in English bond), whitewashed; cobble-built
plinth to west range. Pantile roof. C17 Dutch style. T-shaped
on plan: early west section with 2-room central-staircase west
front and single-room wing to rear, with later 2-room rear
extension.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows to west front.
Plinth, 3-course brick first-floor band with central cogged
course. West front has central projecting enclosed porch with
part-glazed board door beneath hoodmould and stone panel with
blind quatrefoil, shaped gable with moulded brick cornice and
brick coping. 3-light horizontal sliding sashes with glazing
bars and sills beneath hoodmoulds. Shorter similar windows to
first floor. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Shaped
gables with shaped kneelers and brick coping. End stacks with
twin diagonal shafts.
Left gable-end has 3-course first-floor band and 2-course
brick band at eaves level, pair of recessed brick roundels in
gable. Right return has blocked central windows to each floor
and similar brickwork details but without the eaves band.
East wing: south front has 3 first-floor windows. Entrance to
left of centre with 4-panelled door beneath wood lintel; join
between builds to its right. 6/6 sliding sash to right,
3-light sliding sashes with glazing bars to left and far
right, all with hoodmoulds. First-floor band, similar windows
to first floor. Stepped eaves. Shaped gable.
2 diagonal-shafted ridge stacks. East wing, north front, has
enclosed porch similar to west front but with plain
lozenge-shaped tablet above door. To right, a 3/6 sash. To
left, a 6/6 horizontal sliding sash and C20 door.
First floor: three 6/6 sliding sashes, one very narrow. Join
between builds here is slightly further east than on south
front.
INTERIOR: west range north room has basket-arched fireplace
with chamfered brick surround, oak joists and ovolo-chamfered
spine beam with socket-holes suggesting it has been reused;
south room has roughly-chamfered spine beam; east room has

pair of chamfered beams with cyma stops, wide inglenook
fireplace with stairs behind. Upper floor and later section
not inspected.
The house, formerly known as Mordaunt Hall, and recorded in
1949 as containing some "old oak panelling", stands within a
medieval moated site.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 345; Pye LW: The Story of Old
Clee Church and St Peter's Church, Cleethorpes: Gloucester:
1949-: 31; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough
Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural
or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.40;
Grimsby Planning Department: Old Clee Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.40).



Listing NGR: TA2909308307

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:

478791

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Sources

Books and journals
Pye, L W, The Story of Old Clee Church and St Peters Church Cleethorpes, (1949), 31
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 345

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