FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY

FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY, ROBINSON STREET EAST, GRIMSBY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379866
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY
Statutory Address:: FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY, ROBINSON STREET EAST, GRIMSBY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379866
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY, ROBINSON STREET EAST, GRIMSBY

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

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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:: FORMER WATERPROOF CLOTHING FACTORY, ROBINSON STREET EAST, GRIMSBY

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 27344 09447

Details

TA2709SW 699-1/22/56

GRIMSBY, ROBINSON STREET EAST (East side), Former Waterproof Clothing Factory

(Formerly Listed as: ROBINSON STREET EAST (East side), Waterproof Clothing Factory)

31/10/74

GV II

Waterproof clothing factory, now partly used as warehouse. 1914-16 by William Wells of Grimsby for Cosalt Limited (The Great Grimsby Coal, Salt and Tanning Company). Red brick in English bond, with blue brick dressings and mosaic tile decoration. Green slate roof to front, Welsh slate to rear. Internal steel frame. Scottish Baronian style. Rectangular on plan: 3-storey section fronting Robinson Street, with 2-storey range to rear left, fronting onto Holme Street. EXTERIOR: Robinson Street front has 1:4:1 bays with projecting corner pavilions containing entrances and staircases. Central section has stepped plinth and full-height arcade of round-headed arches of 2 plain orders containing recessed windows to each floor. End bays have deep hollow-chamfered plinth. Left pavilion has round-headed doorway with double board door and a fine mosaic tympanum in a deeply-splayed reveal beneath a stepped brick arch of 4 orders, within a recessed square-headed panel with bands of radiating brick and tile framed by a moulded brick architrave. Single slit-lights to each side. Similar smaller entrance to right pavilion, with a double window of 2 square-headed lights to its left. The tympana above the doors both have Art Nouveau-style patterns in green, grey, white and gold mosaic. Left and right end bays have 2 double windows to first floor and a shallower tripartite window to second floor consisting of a central double window flanked by single side lights. All these windows have glazing bars and moulded chamfered blue brick sills beneath soldier arches. Blue brick diaper-work between first and second storeys. Central bays have 3-light windows to each floor, those to second floor round-arched, all with wooden ogee mullions and transoms, glazing bars, chamfered brick sills. Ground-floor windows partly boarded-up. Between windows at first-floor and second-floor level are raised moulded brick string courses and mosaic panels (boarded over at time of survey) with lettering in green on cream mosaic: "GRIMSBY - WATERPROOF - CLOTHING - FACTORY" and "HEAD - OFFICE - FISH - DOCKS". Corbelled brick eaves with imitation machicolations. Tall brick-coped parapet to central section with mosaic panel and lettering "THE GREAT GRIMSBY COAL, SALT AND TANNING CO. LTD.", obscured by later name-board. Corner pavilions have coped parapets and steep gables with blue brick diaper-work and single round-arched slit-lights. Prominent downpipes with decorative rainwater-heads. Pitched roofs, hipped to rear, with short lift-shaft pavilion. Right return has diapered brickwork to second storey and coped gable to corner pavilion. Left return has 2-light and 4-light windows and diaper brickwork to corner pavilion. 3-storey, 3-bay section adjoining to left has 3 cross-windows to ground floor, three 2-light windows to upper floors; coped parapet. 2-storey, 7-bay range to left has recessed full-height panels to each bay with 3-light square-headed windows to ground floor and recessed 3-light segmental-headed windows to first floor, all with wooden ogee mullions and transoms and glazing bars. Waggon entrance to right with deeply-splayed reveal; inserted entrance to third bay. Dentilled brick cornice to recessed panels, stepped eaves, low parapet, prominent downpipes. This rear section has a 5-span north-light roof with glazed panels and coped gables with oculus windows with glazing bars. INTERIOR: main entrance-staircase hall in left pavilion has internal porch with patterned tiled barrel vault, 2-fold half-glazed inner door with lattice-style glazing bars beneath radial fanlight. Good main staircase with brick arcaded stairwell with round and segmental arches with impost bands, geometric-patterned iron balustrades, moulded swept handrail. Staircase windows and others windows in pavilions have chamfered brick mullions in chamfered segmental-arched brick reveals. Plaque in entrance hall records erection "during the years (1914, 1915, 1916) of the Great War" and its opening on 29 February 1916, with a list of company directors. Main stores and work-rooms have exposed steel framing. HISTORY: the Cosalt Company, established in 1873, became one of the largest concerns of its kind, with branches worldwide. Its name referred to its main business of supplying coal to fishing boats, salt for fish curing and the tanning of sails and fishing nets. Other Cosalt buildings in Grimsby include the former butchers shop in Fish Dock Road, and the Cordage Works off Convamore Road (qv). William Wells also designed Brighowgate House, Brighowgate (qv). (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342; Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.29).

Listing NGR: TA2734409447

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Legacy System number:: 479301
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 342

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.