The Doughty Centre, Adjoining Screen Wall and Former Fire Station
THE DOUGHTY CENTRE, ADJOINING SCREEN WALL AND FORMER FIRE STATION, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379890
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Doughty Centre, Adjoining Screen Wall and Former Fire Station
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOUGHTY CENTRE, ADJOINING SCREEN WALL AND FORMER FIRE STATION, TOWN HALL SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379890
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Doughty Centre, Adjoining Screen Wall and Former Fire Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOUGHTY CENTRE, ADJOINING SCREEN WALL AND FORMER FIRE STATION, 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:
- THE DOUGHTY CENTRE, ADJOINING SCREEN WALL AND FORMER FIRE STATION, 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 27152 09296
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2709SW TOWN HALL SQUARE
699-1/22/70 (South side)
The Doughty Centre, adjoining
screen wall and former Fire
Station
GV II
Shown on OS map as Doughty Museum.
Girls school, now Adult Education Centre, adjoining screen
wall, and former Fire Station now St John's Ambulance Rooms.
School 1863, with later C19 Fire Station, for Grimsby
Corporation; later alterations and additions. Yellow brick
with brown brick and ashlar dressings. Concrete tile roof.
L-shaped on plan: with school to front and Fire Station
addition to rear.
EXTERIOR: former school has single-storey front section of 4
by one bays. Front has projecting entrance bay to left and
3-bay symmetrical section to right 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 recessed 2-fold panelled door
beneath original 2-pane fanlight and moulded ashlar arch with
fluted impost bands and tall stepped keystone. Section to
right has continuous projecting ashlar sill band and windows
in recessed panels: 3 closely-set windows to pedimented bay
and pairs of widely-spaced windows to side bays, all are
narrow 2/2 sashes with margin lights beneath segmental brick
arches with tall ashlar keystones linked by a continuous
string course. Bold wooden modillioned cornice. Entrance bay
has bracketed ashlar panel below cornice with relief
inscription "ERECTED AD 1863", and blocking course with raised
central triangular-headed section and relief inscription
"GIRLS SCHOOL". Hipped roof.
Right return has similar details: 3 closely-spaced windows to
left; recessed 2-window section to right with door inserted
beneath the left window.
Screen wall adjoining to front left, approximately 7 metres
long, has plinth, piers, channelled rustication, stone coping
and 2 former doorways blocked with matching brick.
Former Fire Station. Similar style and materials. 2 storeys, 3
bays with narrower bay to far right. Rusticated pilasters
between bays, keyed segmental-arched plate-glass first-floor
windows beneath keyed segmental arches linked by a string
course; moulded wooden eaves cornice, hipped concrete tile
roof. Late C20 projecting ground-floor addition.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: the former Girls School and the former Grammar School
(now the Registrar's Office, qv) form flanking pavilions to
the Town Hall (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.2; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.2).
Listing NGR: TA2715209296
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479332
- 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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