Dock Offices
DOCK OFFICES, ROYAL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379873
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Offices
- Statutory Address:
- DOCK OFFICES, ROYAL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379873
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Dock Offices
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCK OFFICES, ROYAL STREET
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:
- DOCK OFFICES, ROYAL STREET
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 27551 10513
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2710NE ROYAL STREET, The Docks
699-1/7/138 (North East side)
31/10/74 Dock Offices
(Formerly Listed as:
CLEETHORPES ROAD
(North side)
Dock Offices)
GV II
Dock offices. 1885 by Mills and Murgatroyd, for Grimsby Dock
Company. Late C20 alterations include re-roofing, truncating
stacks and fitting uPVC windows within original frames. Red
brick with ashlar and terracotta dressings. C20 Spanish slate
roof. H-plan with entrance front to south.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement. 2:2:3:2:2 bays with 3
central bays breaking forward and projecting outer wings of 2
narrow bays. Symmetrical, apart from slightly irregular
central 3-bay section with staircase window to right. Moulded
ashlar plinth to front; brick basement with moulded ashlar
plinth to sides and rear. Central entrance has ashlar surround
with steps flanked by short curved balustrade walls.
Round-arched doorway with ornate wrought-iron 2-fold outer
gates with wheel motif and radial fanlight. Moulded arch with
archivolt and carved keystone, panelled pilasters with
palmette capitals, keystone and scrolled side brackets
carrying moulded cornice and piers to balustraded balcony.
Internal porch with plain inner entrance. To left, a 2-light
window; to right, a circular window in an ashlar surround with
2-light stair windows above in a full-height segmental-headed
panel rising through 3 storeys, the 2 upper windows C20
replacements with a plain panel between. Ground floor has
recessed panels to each bay with moulded brick reveals and
segmental-headed windows: 2-light windows to central section,
3-light windows to recessed flanking bays and 4-light windows
to wings. Windows have moulded brick reveals and arches, stone
sills and terracotta aprons with raised circular reliefs of
various designs, some serving as ventilation grilles. Window
panels have moulded brick modillions to an ashlar first-floor
band. Single circular terracotta ventilators above each
window. First-floor ashlar sill band. Segmental-headed
recessed panels to first and second floors, containing windows
of similar width to those below, apart from wings which have
twin panels with 2-light windows. First-floor windows have
chamfered ashlar lintels with second-floor ashlar band above.
Second-floor windows have segmental arches, sills and aprons
similar to ground floor. Elaborate eaves frieze with ashlar
string course and moulded brick Lombardy frieze with tall
fluted brackets to a moulded ashlar cornice. Roof hipped to
wings and central section, with finials and central clock
tower.
Tower of square section, 3 stepped-in stages. Panelled base,
moulded ashlar string course to pilastered second stage with
twin louvred openings, ashlar entablature with moulded brick
and ashlar cornice. Upper stage with swept base and clockface
to each side, bold modillioned cornice to 4-sided 2-stage
spire with swept base and ornate round-headed lucarnes to
lower stage and modillioned cornice to top stage with
wrought-iron weather-vane.
Left and right returns have original basement windows with
glazing bars and narrow round-arched lights, upper floors with
similar details to entrance front. Left return has 6
irregularly-spaced first-floor windows, with section to right
of centre breaking forward beneath a hipped roof, and a
projecting chimney-breast between the 2 windows to right.
2-light windows throughout, apart from 3-light windows to the
projecting bay. Fire escape doors to each floor in line to
left. Right return similar but without fire escape doors and
with second chimney breast to far right.
Rear has six 3-light windows to central section, and a central
projecting square-section stack with moulded ashlar offsets
and a tall chamfered shaft. Rear wings longer than those to
south front; that to right with rounded section in angle with
2-light windows, and 3 narrow single-light windows to front.
Left wing has full-height canted bay with 3-light and flanking
single-light windows to each floor beneath ashlar lintels and
hipped roof.
INTERIOR: mainly plain, with segmental arched doorways,
painted brick walls; C20 alterations, including suspended
ceilings. Not fully inspected.
A prominent building, standing near the southern head of the
Royal Dock, facing the Dock Tower to the north at the dock
entrance (qv), and the Albert Memorial to the south (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342; Grimsby Planning Department:
Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-:
NO.98).
Listing NGR: TA2755110513
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 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.
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