WEELSBY HALL

WEELSBY HALL, WEELSBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379899
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: WEELSBY HALL
Statutory Address:: WEELSBY HALL, WEELSBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379899
Date first listed:: 16-Dec-1997
List Entry Name:: WEELSBY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WEELSBY HALL, WEELSBY ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: WEELSBY HALL, WEELSBY ROAD

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 27948 07949

Details

GRIMSBY

TA2707NE WEELSBY ROAD, Weelsby 699-1/37/142 (South side) 16/12/97 Weelsby Hall

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Country house, now children's home. 1890 by L Maples for George Frederick Sleight. Red brick in English bond with stone dressings. Welsh slate roof. PLAN: approximately rectangular on plan, with 2-room and 3-room main fronts and a large central staircase hall. STYLE: Italianate. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with 3-storey tower to south entrance front. Symmetrical south front of 5 irregular bays has central projecting bay with entrance porch and tower, flanked by narrow single recessed bays and projecting gabled outer bays. Moulded plinth, first-floor band, sill bands and string courses linking window heads. Central and outer bays have broad angle-pilasters. Arched ashlar porch with 3 pairs of double marble columns carrying round arches forming a short tunnel vault, the front with a pulvinated frieze, keyed arch with ornate carved spandrels, moulded cornice and balustrade with ball finials to the corner piers. Carved panels to porch sides. Steps to panelled double doors beneath fanlight. Flanking bays have narrow 1/1 sashes beneath segmental arches with keyed and eared architraves. Canted bay window to left wing, rectangular bay window to right wing, both with three 1/1 sashes in pilastered surrounds with keyed arches, entablatures with moulded cornices, and balustraded parapets. First floor: central segmental-headed 1/1 sash in eared architrave, narrow 1/1 sashes to recessed bays similar to ground floor, wings with 3 sashes similar to ground floor but with central round-arched ashlar panels above, carved as blind radial fanlights. Overhanging eaves with wood cornice and corniced gutter carried on bracketed modillions, the gabled wings with open pediments incorporating a dentilled brick raking cornice. Tower has central round-headed sash and oeil-de-boeuf windows in keyed architraves, angle pilasters with carved ashlar panels, panelled frieze, modillioned ashlar cornice and balustrade with stone and brick corner piers, 3 carrying pyramidal finials, the front right corner with a small square turret with round-headed windows with strapwork tracery beneath a pyramidal spire with a wrought-iron finial. Hipped and gabled roof. Lateral and ridge stacks with divided shafts and corniced caps matching the eaves cornice.

Right return, of 6 irregular bays with projecting gabled section to left of centre, has similar windows and details to south front, and a projecting chimney-breast with a carved stone relief panel with a shield bearing initials GFS. Left return, of 5 irregular bays, has projecting 4-bay section to left with central projecting gabled bay, similar details to main front. Rear has side wings with projecting lateral stacks, pedimental gables, attic dormers. INTERIOR: retains many original features. Inner entrance has glazed and panelled screen with coloured leaded lights and a pair of keyed round arches carried on pink marble columns. Entrance-staircase hall has polychrome tiled floor and panelled pine ceiling; wooden staircase, carried on columned arcading, with carved pulvinated string, column balusters and newels; first-floor landing with 4-bay north gallery arcade of marble Corinthian columns with keyed round arches, the keystones serving as corbels for hammerbeams with arched braces and carved pendants carrying an elaborate roof with a raised central section with arched braces and a large roof light. Between the hammerbeams is a painted frieze with cornucopias and urns. The south side of the landing has a glazed screen to the tower staircase in a marble and ashlar surround with Corinthian pilasters, half-glazed panels and door in an elaborate carved wood surround with radial fanlights, the leaded glass panels with paintings depicting the Seasons. The main 4 ground-floor rooms have highly ornate marble chimneypieces, carved wood overmantels and overdoors, moulded cornices and ceiling roses. The ground-floor south-west room has a delicate painted frieze, ceiling and overdoor panel with flowers and musical instruments. Other ground and first-floor rooms have good marble chimneypieces and grates. HISTORY: GF Sleight (later a baronet) was one of Grimsby's greatest fishing magnates, with interests in all processes of the industry, including a fish-curing factory in Sidebottom Street (qv). (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.36).

Listing NGR: TA2794807949

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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.