Description

GRIMSBY

TA2309NW GREAT COATES ROAD, Great Coates
699-1/14/100 (East side)
31/10/74 The Old Rectory

GV II

Rectory, now house. Early C19 with earlier origins, later C19
bay windows and C20 alterations, including rebuilding to rear.
Yellow brick in Flemish bond. Roof of locally-made "French" or
"Scottish"-style clay tiles. Rectangular on plan: 2-room
central entrance-hall front with study and kitchen range to
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3-window range; symmetrical, with single
full-height canted bays to left and right returns. Plinth.
Reeded panelled doorcase with cornice and hood; C20 door in
panelled reveal beneath 3-pane overlight. 6/6 C20 replacement
sashes to ground floor in flush wood architraves beneath
cambered wedge lintels.
Central 4/4 first-floor sash flanked by 6/6 sashes. Stepped
eaves with wooden eaves board. Hipped roof with one mid-roof
stack to left and right. Canted bay to left return has steps
to French window beneath overlight with glazing bars, flanked
by 4/4 sashes in reveals; dentilled brick first-floor band
with moulded sandstone first-floor sill band, central 6/6
first-floor sash flanked by 4/4 sashes; wooden eaves board.
Bay window to right return is similar, apart from having a
single brick band above ground-floor windows.
The right return has earlier red-brown brickwork and straight
joints, probably part of an earlier rectory house.
INTERIOR: entrance hall has coved ceiling cornice and foliate
ceiling roundel. Staircase hall has open-well staircase with
wreathed and swept handrail, rib-moulded stick balusters, and
columned newel; ceiling with coved cornice and ribbed frieze
with paterae. 6-panel doors in ribbed architraves; panelled
window shutters and reveals.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 344; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.128; Grimsby Planning
Department: Great Coates Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1972-: NO.128).

Listing NGR: TA2339609816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660069

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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)