Description

GRIMSBY

TA2609SE VICTORIA STREET WEST
699-1/21/78 (North side)
No.43
Royal Insurance Building

GV II

Shop and offices. 1904 by HC Scaping of Grimsby; JH Thompson,
builder, for the Royal Insurance Company. Later C20
alterations to shop windows. Red brick with buff terracotta
dressings and marble plinth. Welsh slate roof. Edwardian
Freestyle.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Occupies corner site, with single bay to
Victoria Street, 4 bays to Brewery Street. High plinth with
incised blockwork and moulded string course. Channelled
rustication to ground floor. Round-arched entrance in canted
corner has C20 door and boarded fanlight in architrave with
keystone and side brackets supporting a carved corbelled base
to an octagonal angle turret which rises through second and
third storeys. Ground floor has plain shop window to right
(Victoria Street) with C20 glazing in original opening.
Brewery Street front to left has similar windows and a doorway
entrance to the far left, all beneath deep lintels with
hoodmoulds. First floor band. Angle turret has 3 narrow 2/2
sashes in architraves beneath moulded cornice and frieze with
ornate relief panels.
Bay to right (Victoria Street) has 2/2:6/6:2/2 tripartite sash
in a raised surround with apron panel and rusticated Ionic
pilasters beneath a pedimented panel, the latter forming an
apron to a pair of 6/6 second-floor sashes in keyed
architraves.
Brewery Street front has a rectangular first-floor oriel to
left of centre with a similar pilastered tripartite window,
the panel above forming the parapet to a second-floor balcony
with a pair of second-floor sashes above. Flanking this are 3
6/6 first-floor sashes in similar Ionic pilastered and
pedimented surrounds. Second-floor sashes in keyed
architraves. All second-floor windows linked by sill string
course and 3 flush bands. Dentilled cornice. Turret has slit
lights to second floor, octagonal upper stage with string
course carrying small Ionic pilasters, moulded cornice and
dome with ball finial. Flanking bays have coped gables with
central round-headed niches; plain coped parapet to 3 left
bays.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Principally included for its external quality and contribution

towards a distinguished Edwardian commercial street.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J, and Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 341; Grimsby - Action for
Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of
buildings of local architectural or historical interest:
Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.15; Grimsby Planning
Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough
Council: 1990-: NO.15; Grimsby Borough Council: Top Town
Trail: Grimsby: 1989-: NO.16).

Listing NGR: TA2686409369

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660117

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