THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE

THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 5 AND 6, OLD MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379859
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 5 AND 6, OLD MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379859
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 5 AND 6, OLD MARKET PLACE

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE PESTLE AND MORTAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 5 AND 6, OLD MARKET PLACE

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 26748 09229

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE OLD MARKET PLACE 699-1/21/47 (East side) Nos.5 AND 6 The Pestle and Mortar public house

GV II

Public house. 1917 by HC Scaping of Grimsby, for Hadley's Brewery. Brick with composite stone facing to ground floor, imitation timber-framing and plaster infill to upper floors. Slate roof. Tudor Revival style, with ornate West Midlands-style timber framing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays to first and second floors. Ground floor has 4 openings divided by plain rectangular piers. Entrance to far right with recessed 2-fold partly glazed Tudor-arched door beneath leaded-pane overlight with 3 cinquefoiled lights. To left, 3 recessed panels with plinth and recessed 3-light windows with boldly moulded sills and cinquefoiled lights, all with leaded glass, the outer lights with 2 glazing bars, the central lights with stained glass heraldic motifs. Above this a full-width half-timbered frieze with C20 name-board. Modillioned first-floor jetty with carved frieze. Upper storeys have full-height canted bays topped with a modillioned cornice and coped parapet, also canted. The wider central bay, flanked by herringbone timbered panels, has 4-light windows to each storey; the side bays, flanked by timber-framed pilaster strips, have 3-light windows. All windows have cinquefoiled lights and leaded glass incorporating stained-glass heraldic motifs. Above and below the windows are decorative framed panels incorporating quatrefoil and cross motifs. Parapet has similar framing with relief-carved shields at the top of the pilasters, bearing various Grimsby Arms. INTERIOR: staircase hall and large single rooms to each floor, all with C17-style wall panelling with a modillioned cornice, panelled internal porches with Tudor-arched doors, panelled ceilings with moulded foliate cornices. Staircase hall has open-well cantilevered staircase with carved newels, panelled string and column balusters; large circular roof light with radial glazing and tinted glass. This is an extremely well-preserved early C20 public house with all its internal features surviving intact. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest:

Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.23; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.8).

Listing NGR: TA2675109234

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 341

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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.