Registrars Office
REGISTRARS OFFICE, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379889
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Registrars Office
- Statutory Address:
- REGISTRARS OFFICE, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379889
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Registrars Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGISTRARS OFFICE, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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:
- REGISTRARS OFFICE, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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 27064 09302
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2709SW TOWN HALL SQUARE
699-1/22/69 (South side)
Registrar's Office
GV II
Formerly known as: Corporation Grammar School TOWN HALL
SQUARE.
Shown on OS map as Municipal Offices.
Corporation Grammar school, now District Registrar's office.
1867 for Grimsby Corporation, with C20 additions and
alterations. Yellow brick with brown brick and ashlar
dressings. Welsh slate roof.
STYLE: Classical.
PLAN: main range rectangular, with subsidiary ranges to rear.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Front range of 4 by one bays: front
has projecting entrance bay to right and 3-bay symmetrical
section to left with central pedimented bay breaking forward.
Channelled and banded rustication, with bands picked out in
brown brick. Plinth; angle pilasters above sill band.
Round-headed entrance has C20 recessed panelled door with side
panels beneath original 2-pane fanlight and moulded ashlar
arch with fluted impost bands and tall stepped keystone.
3-bay section to left has continuous projecting ashlar sill
band and windows in recessed panels: 3 closely-set windows to
pedimented bay, pairs of widely-spaced windows to side bays,
all with narrow 2/2 sashes with margin lights beneath
segmental brick arches with tall ashlar keystones linked by an
ashlar string course. Bold wooden modillioned cornice.
Entrance bay has bracketed ashlar tablet below cornice with
relief inscription "ERECTED AD 1867", and an ashlar blocking
course with a raised triangular-headed central section bearing
carved relief and incised inscription "CORPORATION GRAMMAR
SCHOOL".
Hipped roof with central square-section base of former cupola.
Low roof stacks to rear.
Left and right returns have similar details, with 3
closely-set windows to front range; left return has inserted
door and recessed 2-window section to left.
Additions to rear in matching style and materials.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This building and the former Girls School (now the Doughty
Centre, qv) form flanking pavilions to the Town Hall (qv).
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, Antram N:
Lincolnshire: 1989: 342: London; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.3; Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: Central Conservation Dept: 1990-: NO.3).
Listing NGR: TA2706409302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479331
- 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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