The Mackintosh Arms And Property Adjacent To Left

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

GOOLE AIRE STREET SE 7423 (east side)

14/46 The Mackintosh Arms and property adjacent to left

GV II House, now house, shop and public house. 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of Doncaster for Aire and Calder Navigation; later C19 shop front with C20 alterations, late C19 addition to rear. Brick in Flemish bond, colour- washed. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Plinth.

Entrance to left of centre has original stucco or ashlar doorcase with pilasters carrying entablature with modillioned cornice and hood; C20 double panelled door beneath plain overlight in reveal. To left later C19 shop front with recessed half-glazed fielded-panel door to left beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight in panelled reveal, 4-light window to right with moulded mullions above apron with basket-arched panels. To right, former similar shop front with C20 brick infill incorporating 3 windows. Shop fronts to both sides in wood surround with single pilasters to left and right carrying plain frieze with modillioned cornice. (boxed-in to left).

First-floor ashlar sill band. Later C19 4-pane first-floor sashes in original openings beneath rubbed-brick cambered arches. Short 6-pane second-floor sashes with sills beneath similar arches. Plain C20 wooden eaves board. Stack straddling ridge with plain ashlar band, brick cornice.

Interior. Entrance hall has moulded ribbed cornices,round-arched opening with archivolt and panelled pilasters with roundel ornament. Moulded cornice to shop, ground floor left. Ground-floor rear left room has elaborate late C19 plasterwork frieze with urns and foliage, ornate cornice and panelled ceiling with openwork floral and grapevine motifs, ceiling rose; adjoining billiard room to rear has octagonal panelled ceiling with similar plasterwork designs, rising to octagonal lantern. Both rooms have low C20 false ceilings; the original ceilings visible through glass panels.

Part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks. Aire Street was the main commercial street. Porteous J D, Canal Ports, 1976.

Listing NGR: SE7470623372

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1749 IOE Records taken by Janet Roworth; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs Janet Roworth. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project