Worsley House

Worsley House, 894 Hessle Road, Hull, HU4 6SA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283085
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: Worsley House
Statutory Address:: Worsley House, 894 Hessle Road, Hull, HU4 6SA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283085
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: Worsley House
Statutory Address 1:: Worsley House, 894 Hessle Road, Hull, HU4 6SA

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Worsley House, 894 Hessle Road, Hull, HU4 6SA

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 05440 27062

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/10/2019

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KINGSTON UPON HULL HESSLE ROAD (north west side) No 894, Worsley House

(Formerly listed as Pickering Hall, HESSLE ROAD)

II Former home for orphan girls, later an old people's home. 1914. By John Bilson of Hull. Brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with two side wall and two rear wall stacks. Late C17 Domestic Revival style. Plinth and first-floor band.

Two storeys; eleven-window range. C-plan. Windows are glazing bar sashes with slight segmental heads. Central projecting ashlar entrance bay has an eighteen-pane sash with an eared and shouldered surround. To its left, an eighteen-pane sash, then two twelve-pane sashes. To its right, three twelve-pane sashes. Below, a moulded ashlar doorcase flanked by rusticated pilasters, with a panelled door. Flanking wings ave dentillated open pediments and two eighteen-pane sashes on each floor. Returns have two through-eaves pedimented dormers.

Listing NGR: TA0544027062

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Legacy System number:: 387582
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 288

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.