Description

GRIMSBY

TA2710SW VICTORIA STREET NORTH
699-1/11/74 (West side)
23/07/86 Victoria Mills

GV II

Flourmill, warehouses and offices, now flats. 1889 and 1906,
by Sir William Gelder of Hull, with late C20 alterations and
conversion to flats.
Red brick, with blue brick, stone and terrracota dressings:
Welsh slate roofs with stone-coped gables and parapets.
Flemish style. Gable facing.
Building is in 3 main parts: a central 5 by 8 bay 8-storey
grain store, a 3 by 2 bay 7-storey quayside loading building
attached to west, and a 9 by 6 bay 7-storey double-range
road-side warehouse attached to east. Later southern addition
alongside Victoria Street.
EXTERIOR: east elevation of 7-storey warehouse to Victoria
Street has 6 windows to each floor with projecting sills and
segmental brick arches with tall stepped keystones. All
windows have wooden casements inserted 1990: 9-pane windows to
floors 1-5, 6-pane windows to ground floor, top floor and
attic. Above the third storey the windows are set in recessed
panels, stepped-in to top and bottom. 2 crow-stepped gables
above with large obelisk ridge finials. At apex of each gable
is a large stone plaque beneath a scrolled pediment, one
inscibed "ERECTED", the other "AD 1906". North and south
elevations of warehouse have similar windows and recessed
panels, but without keystones to the arches.
North side has wide entrance to fifth and sixth bays, 2
storeys high, beneath a steel joist carried on ashlar
brackets. Segmental-headed doors to ground-floor right. Plain
parapets. Prominent downpipes. Series of circular cast-iron
tie-bar ends at floor levels to north and south sides.
East gable-end of the 8-storey grain store has recessed panels
to each bay with segmental arches, hoodmoulds and corniced
keystones linked by a flush ashlar band. Below the arches is
full-width ashlar panel with relief inscription "VICTORIA
FLOUR MILLS". Elaborate shaped gable with 2 central panels
containing windows with glazing bars beneath keyed segmental
arches and a flush ashlar band; 3 pilaster strips capped with
obelisk finials. To each corner is a turret-like projection
with pilaster strips, panelled sides, castellated parapets and
yellow tiled domes surmounted by ball finials.
North side of store: 10 blocked ground-floor openings with a
row of tie-bar ends above; recessed panels to each bay above

fourth storey. Pair of downpipes. Coped parapet. Iron fire
escape of 5 flights leading down to east warehouse from an
entrance in the parapet with a segmental-arched door in a
stepped and gabled surround with stone coping and ball
finials.
South elevation is similar, with 9 blocked ground-floor
windows, recessed panels. Pair of wide 5-light flat-roofed
dormers with glazing bars and slate-hung cheeks.
West gable-end of store has 5 segmental-headed recessed
panels, the taller central one rising into the gable, with
single 12-light segmental-arched windows with iron glazing
bars to the top storey and attic. The gable has crow-stepped
outer sections flanked by domed angle turrets similar to those
on the east gable, and a raised central section fronting a
raised section of the roof with a blind round-arched panel
flanked by corbelled pilaster strips, rising to a shaped gable
with a central obelisk finial flanked by ball finials.
7-storey loading section to west: west elevation has blue
brick plinth forming part of dock wall; narrow round-headed
opening rising through 4 storeys (blocked to lower 2 storeys),
housing a loading conveyor. Above this, a single 12-pane
window to the fifth floor. To left, single 12-pane windows to
each floor apart from sixth floor which has a single central
window. Row of central tie-bar ends between bays. At
first-floor level are a pair of cast-iron hoist mountings and
at third-floor level a wooden hood to a rope hoist.
Stone-coped gable.
North side of loading bay has a waggon entrance to left
beneath a steel lintel carried on ashlar blocks; a single
blocked opening to the right, 9-pane wooden casements to
floors 2, 3, 4 and 5, with segmental arches and stone sills;
blocked similar openings to first floor. South side similar,
but with 12-pane iron casements (some missing) and blind
panels to first and second floor of left bay.
INTERIOR: timber grain silos, reaching the full height of the
central store, removed in 1993 prior to the insertion of
floors.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 342; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.88; Grimsby Borough
Council: Top Town Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.37; Grimsby
Planning Department: Victoria Mill Conservation Area: Grimsby
Borough Council: 1990-: MAP).

Listing NGR: TA2715510022

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660114

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