Fairlawn (St James Choir School)
FAIRLAWN (ST JAMES CHOIR SCHOOL), PELHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379863
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fairlawn (St James Choir School)
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRLAWN (ST JAMES CHOIR SCHOOL), PELHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379863
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Fairlawn (St James Choir School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRLAWN (ST JAMES CHOIR SCHOOL), PELHAM ROAD
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:
- FAIRLAWN (ST JAMES CHOIR SCHOOL), PELHAM ROAD
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 26384 08934
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2608NW PELHAM ROAD
699-1/25/51 (South side)
Fairlawn (St James' Choir School)
GV II
House, now school. 1885, for EM Marshall, with later C19
additions. Red brick with slate roof. L-shaped on plan, with
main east garden front facing Bargate, and north entrance
front facing Pelham Road.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; east front of 2 bays, symmetrical. Pair
of full-height square bay windows, each with tripartite
ground-floor French windows flanked by narrow side lights in
Ionic pilastered surround. String course, diaper-work panel at
first-floor level with dentilled sill string course above.
Pairs of sashes to first floor, with arched glazing bars,
beneath flat arches with fluted keystones carrying relief
panels. Dentilled pediments with diaper-work tympana and
taller projecting central sections with angle pilasters,
relief panels with Marshall cypher, and segmental pediments
with urn finials. Crested ridge tiles, ornate end stacks.
Later plainer addition to left with sashes.
North front has steps to projecting single-storey porch with
angle pilasters, keyed round-arched entrance with double board
doors, moulded cornice and triangular pediment of
ornately-moulded brick. To the left is a gabled section with a
projecting external chimneystack bearing a segmental
pedimented moulded brick date plaque, a second relief panel
above, panelled chimneyshaft, string courses and a pedimented
gable with diaper-work tympanum.
INTERIOR: has ornate wooden staircase, moulded plasterwork to
main rooms.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 339-340; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.117; Grimsby Planning
Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council:
1972-: NO.117).
Listing NGR: TA2638408934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479298
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 339-340
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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