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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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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 479332
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 342

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