The Corporation Arms
THE CORPORATION ARMS, 88, FREEMAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379838
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Corporation Arms
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORPORATION ARMS, 88, FREEMAN STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14671/33
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379838
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Corporation Arms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CORPORATION ARMS, 88, FREEMAN STREET
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.
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:
- THE CORPORATION ARMS, 88, FREEMAN STREET
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 27653 10111
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2710SE FREEMAN STREET
699-1/12/33 (West side)
No.88
The Corporation Arms
II
Includes: The Corporation Arms NELSON STREET.
Public House and former music hall. Late C19. Colourwashed red
brick with stone dressings; marble and wood public-house front
to ground floor. Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan, with a
canted angle to the street corner.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey main range with 3 bays to Freeman Street, a
single bay to the corner, and 2 bays to Nelson Street with a
single-storey, single-window section to the left. Ground floor
has continuous public-house front surround with marble plinth
and base to sill band level, carved and fluted pilasters,
pulvinated frieze and carved dosserets, modillioned cornice
and hood. Mirrored reveals to windows. Former corner entrance
has double pilastered surround, doorway blocked. Entrance to
Freeman Street has similar surround, recessed half-glazed
panelled door with 3-pane stained-glass overlight. Similar
entrance to Nelson Street.
Pub window has 2 windows to Freeman Street, 3 windows to
Nelson Street with a relief panel between the 2 windows to the
right. All are wide 3-light plate-glass mullioned and
transomed windows with column mullions and round-arched
glazing bars to the upper sections; frosted lower panes with
etched designs of Grimsby Corporation Arms in ornate borders.
First floor has canted wooden oriel window at the corner with
a pilastered surround, bracketed cornice and hipped roof.
Flanking bays have 2/2 sashes with sills beneath keyed
cambered wedge lintels. Smaller similar second-floor windows.
Moulded wooden eaves board with bold scrolled modillion
brackets. Corniced end stack to right.
INTERIOR: retains original moulded plaster cornices and
chimneypieces. Smoke Room to left, on Nelson Street, has
fielded panelling with fluted pilasters with carved bases and
capitals, pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice, carved
pilastered chimneypiece and fitted bench seating. In the 1880s
an upper room was used as a music hall.
(Ambler RW: Great Grimsby Fishing Heritage: a brief for a
trail: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: 43-44).
Listing NGR: TA2765310111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479272
- 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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