Description

GRIMSBY

TA2608SE BARGATE
699-1/29/9 (East side)
No.53
Millfields

GV II

House, now hotel. 1879 for Robert Cook, chemist. Minor late
C20 alterations; conservatory addition of 1993. Red brick with
ashlar dressings; concrete tile roof. Jacobethan style.
Rectangular on plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Wide central
entrance porch flanked by rectangular ground-floor bay
windows; first-floor central bay breaks forward. Porch has
tripartite entrance with Ionic columns carrying keyed round
arches with ornate floral relief carvings in the spandrels.
Round-headed inner entrance with half-glazed door and fanlight
in ashlar surround.
Flanking bays have plinth, 3-light mullioned windows with
plate-glass sashes. Continuous cornice and balustrade at
first-floor level, interrupted above porch by oriel window
with narrow sashes. Side bays have 3-light mullioned windows
in quoined surrounds. Continuous ashlar entablature at eaves
level with moulded cornice.
Ashlar parapet to side bays with scrollwork relief panels.
Central bay has balustrade above oriel and a shaped gable with
a carved dated cartouche, moulded coping and ball finials.
Hipped roof. Partly projecting side-wall stacks with corniced
caps and tall elaborate pots. Right return has full-height
canted bay with balustraded parapet.
INTERIOR: entrance hall with panelled doors in architraves
with ornate overdoors; polychrome tile floor; moulded arch to
staircase hall with cantilevered wooden staircase and panelled
pine ceiling.
One of the best surviving large houses of this period in the
Grimsby area.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126;
Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1972-: NO.126).

Listing NGR: TA2658708363

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659623

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Recommended Books

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability