Prudential Building
PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379896
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Prudential Building
- Statutory Address:
- PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1379896
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Prudential Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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:
- PRUDENTIAL BUILDING, VICTORIA STREET WEST
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 26885 09367
Details
GRIMSBY
TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/79 (North side)
No.49
Prudential Building
GV II
Shop and offices. 1913. By Paul Waterhouse for Prudential
Assurance Co. Ltd. Limestone ashlar with green slate roof.
Edwardian Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic. 1:3:1 bays, with central bays
breaking forward. Plinth, channelled rustication to ground
floor, 4 giant Ionic pilasters to central section. Ground
floor has central C20 shop front in original wide
segmental-arched opening with scrolled keystone and pair of
squared brackets carrying a narrow central first-floor
balcony. Recessed side bays each have doorways with
architraves, bracketed dosserets and a dentilled open pediment
supporting a deeply-recessed circular window with glazing bars
in an architrave with an elaborate carved keystone with
festoons, ribbons and fruit. Entrance on right has original
panelled door; former entrance on left has inserted C20
glazing.
First-floor string course. Pilastered central section has
deeply recessed windows. Central bay has a projecting panel
with scrolled feet, containing a balconied first-floor window
beneath an elaborate carved cartouche and dentilled segmental
hood, the panel continuing above to form the base of a
second-floor balcony. Both balconies have geometric
wrought-iron balustrades. Flanking bays 2 and 4 have blind
balustraded aprons to the second-floor windows. Outer bays
have full-height panels containing windows with bead-and-reel
moulded reveals, moulded sills and raised panels between
floors. All windows (apart from dormers) have C20 2-light
casements. Central entablature with raised gold lettering in
frieze "PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED", modillioned
cornice and blocking course. Side bays have coped parapets
with blind balustrades to flat-roofed dormers with cross
windows and glazing bars. Similar 4-light mullioned and
transomed dormer to centre. Coped gables. End stacks.
INTERIOR: panelled doors in architraves, moulded cornices;
open-well staircase around lift-shaft.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.14; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.14; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO. 17).
Listing NGR: TA2688509367
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, John, H, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1964), 341
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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