Description

GRIMSBY

TA2908SW CHURCH LANE, Old Clee
699-1/34/104 (South side)
31/10/74 No.3
Seaspray
(Formerly Listed as:
CHURCH LANE, Old Clee
(West side)
No.3)

GV II

Formerly known as: Old Clee Riding School CHURCH LANE Old
Clee.
Shown on OS map as Old Clee Riding School.
House. c1870, for Grant-Thorold Estate, with later C19-early
C20 extension and subdivision into 2 houses. Red brick with
pantile roof. C17 Dutch style. L-shaped on plan: 2-room
central lobby-entry front with central entrance porch, and
later single-room wing to rear left.
EXTERIOR: single-storey with attic, 2 windows. Chamfered brick
plinth. Enclosed porch has blocked chamfered 4-centred arch
flanked by small 1/1 sashes, with a single-pane window above
the door in a shaped gable with moulded brick kneelers,
ovolo-moulded cornice and coping. Left and right returns of
porch have 2-pane windows.
Main range: to the right, a dummy window with markings for a
3-light casement with 10 panes to each light; to the left, an
inserted flush-panelled door beneath a chamfered wooden
lintel, and a C20 casement with glazing bars in an original
opening. All windows in chamfered reveals with chamfered
lintels, chamfered brick sills and hoodmoulds. Moulded brick
eaves cornice. Shaped gables with moulded brick kneelers,
moulded brick cornice and coping similar to porch. Corniced
axial stack with 3 octagonal shafts.
Left and right gable-ends have single 3-light windows to each
floor with 3 panes to each light, in similar surrounds to
front windows.
Rear wing has single similar ground-floor window, stepped and
moulded brick eaves cornice, ogee-shaped gable, end stack with
chamfered shaft.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a series of estate houses in Old Clee built for
Alexander Grant-Thorold of Weelsby Old Hall in a style
matching that of nearby Clee Hall Farmhouse, Clee Road (qv).
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or

historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.44;
Grimsby Planning Department: Old Clee Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.44).

Listing NGR: TA2892408442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659653

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