Description

GRIMSBY

TA2708SW PARK DRIVE
699-1/30/49 (South side)
Nos.33 AND 34
Tapley House (No.33) and Mentmore
(No.34)

GV II

Pair of houses. c1900. Red brick and imitation timber framing
with plastered panels. Welsh slate roof. Handed pair of houses
in a range approximately U-shaped on plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows. 4-window middle
section with twin central octagonal turrets, projecting gabled
outer wings, and entrances in the angles. Chamfered plinth
capped with blue brick. Each house has a flight of stone steps
with low coped balustrade walls to an internal entrance porch.
Basket-arched outer doorway with chamfered jambs, rusticated
brick quoins and carved stone head with moulded imposts,
panelled spandrels and architrave. Porches have polychrome
tiled floor, dado rail and part-glazed panelled door with
shaped lights in glazed and panelled screen with engraved
lights. No.34 has a later 2-fold panelled outer door beneath a
radial fanlight with slender copper glazing bars.
Octagonal turrets have plate-glass casements to each floor.
Outer wings each have a projecting ground-floor brick bay
window and flanking shaped wooden brackets carrying a jettied
first floor. Bay window has 2 lights to front and one to each
side with sills and shaped lintels. Deep continuous dentilled
and moulded wooden first-floor string course. Balconies above
entrances, with pierced splat balusters, moulded piers and
rails. No.34 has original cross-window to balcony with moulded
architrave, leaded lights with coloured glass; No.33 has later
French window and overlight.
Wings: vertical timber panelling to front and sides, single
tripartite 4-light window with central projecting
triangular-pointed 2-light section, beneath continuous
pulvinated cornice, and Y-framed gable with deep bracketed
eaves. Central turrets each have a similar cornice at eaves
level, and a short vertical-panelled octagonal stage above,
topped by a short spire with splayed base and a ball finial.
Moulded bargeboards with finials to gables; shaped and pierced
eaves boards to remainder, including turret. All windows,
apart from those to balconies, have moulded wood mullions,
large panes below and smaller segmental-arched panes above.
Crested ridge-tiles. 3 ridge stacks with panelled sides and
dentilled cornices, original pots.

Right return has pair of flat-roofed ground-floor wooden bay
windows with similar glazing to front windows, continuous
first-floor corniced string course; pair of single sashes to
first floor. Left return similar but with a brick
chimneybreast to the right instead of a bay window.
INTERIOR: moulded cornices and ceilings, round-arched openings
to bay windows with moulded corbels and archivolts. No.34 has
Adam-style ceiling to front room; C17-style panelled surround
and overmantel to recessed front fireplace. Staircases with
bolection-panelled string, pierced splat balusters and bold
newel with carved relief panels.
Part of a series of stylish houses built around Peoples Park
in the 1890s and early 1900s, when the town was flourishing as
a fishing port.
(Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning
Department: List of buildings of local architectural or
historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.125;
Grimsby Planning Department: Wellow Conservation Area: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1972-: NO.125).

Listing NGR: TA2707908165

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660084

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