TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE

TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE, FISH DOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379836
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE, FISH DOCK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379836
Date first listed:: 30-Jun-1999
List Entry Name:: TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE, FISH DOCK ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Statutory Address:: TOM TAYLOR AND SONS SHOP AND WAREHOUSE, FISH DOCK ROAD

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District:: North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 27914 10967

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2710NE FISH DOCK ROAD, The Docks 699-1/7/120 (East side) Tom Taylor and Son's shop and warehouse

GV II

Fishermens' outfitters shop and warehouse. Late C19 for J Bygrave Ltd. Red brick front with stone dressings to Fish Dock Road; yellow brick front with red brick dressings to Surtees Street. Welsh slate roof. Fish Dock Road front in Low Countries Baroque style. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. Plinth with chamfered ashlar cap. Entrance to left has recessed panelled door and overlight in keyed segmental-arched surround with brick pilasters and ashlar head with tall fluted dosserets, scrolled pediment with relief carved tympanum containing cartouche in foliate surround. Fine shop front to right with recessed central entrance with part-glazed panelled door in panelled pilastered surround with moulded cornice. Ornate polychrome mosaic floor to entrance with inscription "J. BYGRAVE LTD" within floral border. Shop window has moulded sills, slender columned wooden mullions with Ionic capitals, large single panes below and frieze above with frosted glass and geometric glazing bars. Above the entrance is an ornate carved wood panel with scrolled decoration. Green-tiled shop front surround with moulded and pulvinated plinth, panelled pilasters with moulded medallions, Ionic capitals with vine drops, scrolled acanthus brackets and tall dosserets capped with segmental pediments with moulded tympana. Frieze with egg and dart cornice, C20 name board, cornice and hood. First floor: central 3-light window flanked on each side by 2 single-light windows, that to far left shorter, all with wood mullions and transoms, single panes below, glazing bars above, moulded stone sills, rubbed brick segmental arches. Second floor: single keyed oculus windows with glazing bars to outer bays; projecting central gabled panel carried on a pulvinated ashlar string course, with 3 stepped round-headed windows with a 2-light central window flanked by single lights. 3 panes to each light, with a geometric fanlight to the central window. Linked round-arched hoodmoulds, the central window with a tall keystone carrying a pilaster strip. Coped central gable with shaped kneelers and a raised apex capped with a moulded ashlar pediment with a relief-carved tympanum, the pediment bisected by the central pilaster strip which is topped by a ball finial. Side bays have moulded ashlar eaves cornices and

moulded kneelers. Tall central stack and stack to rear right with corbelled brick cornices, ashlar caps. Front to Surtees Street has 3 first-floor openings. Central entrance with board door flanked by 3-light windows (that to right boarded). First floor: central 3-light window with protective metal grille in front, flanked by taller windows. Second floor: central board door with timber hoist arm above, flanked by windows similar to those below but shorter. All windows have 3 lights, wood mullions and transoms. All doors and windows have segmental red brick arches and projecting stone sills (except for central first-floor window). Corbelled 4-course brick verge to gable. INTERIOR: shop has cast-iron column, original fittings; not fully investigated. HISTORY: originally known as the Yarmouth Stores, the premises of a fishermens' outfitter and sea-boot maker; still used as a fishermens' outfitter's shop. This is architecturally the most impressive and well preserved example of this type of the small combined shop and warehouse that characterize Grimsby Fish Docks, dating from the period when Grimsby was the world's foremost fishing port.

Listing NGR: TA2791410967

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.