Haven Mill

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2609NE GARTH LANE
699-1/16/35 (South side)
28/02/75 Haven Mill
(Formerly Listed as:
GARTH LANE
(South side)
Flour Mill, Barley Kiln, Maltings
and Warehouse)

GV II

Cornmill and warehouse, now incorporating shops, restaurant
and public house. Early C19 3-storey river-front section,
raised and extended in later C19; late C20 restorations and
conversion. Red-brown brick; weatherboarded lucam. Welsh slate
roof. Rectangular on plan.
EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, 13 by 4 bays; incorporates original
3-storey section of 9 by 3 bays at south-east corner. South
front faces the West Haven. Early 9-bay section to right has
3:3:3 bays, with centre section breaking forward and
containing a wide central segmental-arched ground-floor
entrance. Continuous opening to left, rising through 3
storeys, formerly with doors to each floor, now with C20
glazing. Former central doorway to first floor, now glazed;
another to second floor obscured by C20 sign-board. Above
this, a gabled lucam rising through the 2 top storeys, with
pairs of small single-light windows to its left and right
returns. 4 later bays to left have C20 ground-floor balcony
with C20 half-glazed doors to bays 3 and 4, and a first-floor
entrance to bay 4, now glazed. Windows throughout have C20
glazing in original wood frames with central mullions beneath
segmental brick arches (apart from 2 to 10th bay beneath
timber lintels); some openings blocked. Circular cast-iron
tie-bar ends throughout, some with relief designs.
North side faces Garth Lane. Wide entrance to left of centre
with sliding double doors beneath a timber lintel and
segmental brick relieving arch; wide sliding door to right in
blue brick surround; 3 entrances with board doors beneath
lintels. 2 late C20 fire escape staircases to inserted
first-floor doors to far left and far right. Similar tie-bar
ends, windows and blocked openings to those on east front.
The 4-bay section to far right has a vertical series of late
C19-early C20 sliding doors to each floor, a blocked
continuous full-height opening (formerly for loading doors) to
the right, and an inserted sliding attic door.
East and west sides have similar windows and blocked window

openings. Roofs in separate sections to the different builds:
the south side in 2 separate hipped spans linked by a roof
passage with side windows, the north side with 4 gabled spans.
Crested ridge tiles throughout.
INTERIOR: ground floor has brick piers and a variety of
cast-iron columns; first floor restaurant retains grain chutes
and other mill items in situ.
HISTORY: West Haven was Grimsby's early port, before the dock
extensions to the north, created from 1800 onwards.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341-2; Ambler RW: Great Grimsby
Fishing Heritage: a brief for a trail: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: 53; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby
Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local
architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council:
1972-: NO.26; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail:
Grimsby: 1989-: NO.44).



Listing NGR: TA2679409531

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 341-342

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