Pelham Terrace Including Rear Yard Wall

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2608NW PELHAM ROAD
699-1/25/50 (North side)
31/10/74 Nos.4-12 (Even)
Pelham Terrace including rear yard
wall

GV II

Terrace of 5 houses. 1854 for the Earl of Yarborough, with
later C19 and C20 alterations to No.12, and minor alterations
to remainder. Red brick in Flemish bond; Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3-window range to each house; houses
arranged in handed pairs. Each house has ashlar plinth, 3
stone steps to a recessed half-glazed panelled door with
engraved panes and plain fanlight beneath a round arch with
impost blocks. 6/6 ground-floor sashes with stone sills
beneath cambered rubbed-brick arches. First-floor balcony
carried on chamfered timber piers with shaped arched braces
with pierced trefoils. Balcony has wooden fascia with corniced
wooden gutter, balustrade with wooden principals and handrail,
and ornate cast-iron scrollwork panels bearing anthemion
motif, alternating with plain bars. First floor has French
windows with glazing bars beneath 2-pane overlights. Second
floor has 3/6 sashes with sills. Moulded eaves board with
carved modillion brackets carrying wooden gutter.
Entrance to No.4 has painted overlight with Highland landscape
scene. No.6 has plain glass to door. No.8 has plate glass to
lower half of sashes and horizontal sliding Venetian blinds to
the first floor. No.10 has ribbed glass to front door, shaped
blind boxes to first-floor windows and plain wooden balustrade
to balcony. No.12 has later alterations: a late C19 projecting
ground-floor extension with 2/2 sashes to the front and an
entrance on its left return with an inserted C20 glazed door
and fanlight in an original quoined ashlar surround mutilated
by the adjoining later C20 building (Nos.12A and 12B, which is
not included). First floor of No.12 has plain balcony,
original French window and 2 windows with C20 glazing, and a
C20 concrete-tiled canopy extending from Nos.12A-12B. 3 large
corniced roof stacks. Right return of terrace bears scars of
end house, demolished in 1970s.
Rear has a variety of fenestration, including wooden
ground-floor bay windows, sashes with glazing bars. Series of
low 2-storey rear service wings and, to No.4, a tall later C19
single-storey music room (now garage) with round-headed
stained glass windows. Original board doors and inserted C20
garage doors to rear yards enclosed by coped walls ramped up

to higher sections adjoining the outbuildings.
INTERIOR: cantilevered staircases with slender column-on-bulb
balusters, wreathed and swept grip handrail and moulded
tread-ends; 4-panelled doors and windows in architraves,
moulded plaster cornices. Later C19 music room to rear of
No.4, now garage, has ornate interior with panelled dado and
wall arcade of fluted Corinthian pilasters, with half-columns
flanking the former stage adjoining the house (now utility
room); elaborate modillioned cornice, mutilated in places by
late C20 roof; round-headed windows with stained glass floral
designs in fluted architraves. Door to yard has internal
hardwood surround with twin columns; inserted C20 garage door
to rear.
HISTORY: the terrace was a speculative development by Charles
Anderson Pelham, the second Earl of Yarborough, a major local
landowner and director of the Manchester, Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway Company, which was responsible for early
development of Grimsby Docks. Forms a group with the slightly
earlier St James's Terrace nearby on Bargate (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 340; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.116; Grimsby Planning
Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council:
1972-: NO.116).



Listing NGR: TA2643008962

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 340

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