Description

GRIMSBY

TA2908SW CLEE CRESCENT, Old Clee
699-1/34/109 (North side)
31/10/74 Nos.60 AND 62

GV II

Pair of houses. c1870 for the Grant-Thorold Estate, with late
C20 alterations and addition to No.62. Red brick with pantile
roof; additions in matching style and materials. Main range
C17 Dutch style. T-shaped on plan: each house originally with
a single front room entered from a porch, and a single back
room; C20 extensions to rear.
EXTERIOR: single-storey with attic, 2 windows to front.
Chamfered plinth. Porches to far left and far right. Each has
a chamfered 4-centred arch, C20 glazed door, a square stone
tablet above the entrance with a cross-slit in a quatrefoiled
roundel, pointed arched gable with moulded brick kneelers,
ovolo-moulded cornice and coping. Small-pane 3-light windows
in chamfered reveals with chamfered lintels and brick sills
beneath brick hoodmoulds. Shaped gables with moulded brick
kneelers, cornices and coping. Central corniced stack with 3
octagonal shafts. Left and right gable-ends have single
similar 3-light windows to each floor.
To rear of No.60, in the angle between the front and rear
ranges, is a small original lean-to with an 8-pane window,
moulded brick eaves and shaped gable.
Rear of No.62 has scar of former similar lean-to and a
small-pane 3-light window to the original section of the rear
wing in a similar surround to front; C20 casements to
extension; pair of C20 gabled dormers, shaped gable.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
One of a series of houses built by 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.42;
Grimsby Planning Department: Old Clee Conservation Area:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.42).

Listing NGR: TA2907308424

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659662

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)