No. 37 Bethlehem Street, Grimsby

Image: © David Wright Taken: 8 Oct 2011

This is a Grade II Listed Building. No. 39 on the left of the picture is also listed - see www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-478755-39-grimsby for details. "GRIMSBY TA2609SE BETHLEHEM STREET 699-1/21/16 (South side) 31/10/74 No.37 (Formerly Listed as: BETHLEHEM STREET (South side) Nos.37 AND 39) GV II House, now offices. Mid C19 with minor C20 alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, rendered plinth. Welsh slate roof. 2-room central entrance hall front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3-window range; symmetrical. Entrance has panelled eared architrave with plinth blocks bearing carved scrolled feet, and a shallow hood carried on large elaborately scrolled foliate consoles; stone steps to 6-fielded-panel door beneath large overlight with margin lights in panelled reveal. Passage entrance to far right has recessed panelled door and overlight with margin lights beneath cambered wedge lintel with projecting key. Ground-floor sashes with margin lights, projecting sills with C20 wrought-iron balconettes, and projecting wedge lintels, plastered over in C20 (originally with projecting keystones, as in passage entrance and No.39 next door, (qv). 6/6 sashes to first floor. 3/6 sashes to second floor. Deep wooden eaves board with modillion brackets carrying wooden gutter. End stacks. INTERIOR: retains original open-well staircase (with balustrade boarded over in C20) and other original features. Reputed to have been erected 1871 for a local doctor. (Grimsby - Action for Conservation: Grimsby Borough Planning Department: List of buildings of local architectural or historical interest: Grimsby Borough Council: 1972-: NO.19; Grimsby Planning Department: Central Conservation Area: Grimsby Borough Council: 1990-: NO.19). " www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-478754-37-grimsby

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