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| Woodliffe Villa - revamp underway |
AN important building on Cleethorpes seafront has this month been undergoing a welcome facelift.
No 41 Alexandra Road - also known as Woodliffe Villa - is the latest building to receive Townscape Heritage funding.
Grade II Listed, it is one of the earliest properties along the road.
Built from red brick with a Welsh slate roof, the building also has a cast iron arcade and balcony dating from around 1900.
This work, which is being undertaken by Grimsby firm Topcon, comes in the wake of other heritage work along the same stretch.
In December last year, a section of the balconies at the southern end of Alexandra Road was removed so that the cast iron could be stripped, checked for structural flaws, then re-coated away from the marine environment before being reinstated.
It is expected that those balconies will be returned to the properties within the next few months.
Work has already been undertaken to restore the bay windows on No 21 and 22 Alexandra Road, and refurbishment of the RAF Association building at No 5 Alexandra Road was completed last year.
Enthuses Cllr Callum Procter, North East Lincolnshire Council's cabinet member for heritage: "This is a fantastic project, and I am really pleased.
"People in Cleethorpes love the Victorian balconies, and we need to make sure our heritage is preserved for the future."
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