Former Public Benefit Shoe Company Shop at Corner of Coltman Street

FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET, 152 AND 154, HESSLE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025257
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Former Public Benefit Shoe Company Shop at Corner of Coltman Street
Statutory Address:
FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET, 152 AND 154, HESSLE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025257
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Former Public Benefit Shoe Company Shop at Corner of Coltman Street
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET, 152 AND 154, HESSLE ROAD

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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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET, 152 AND 154, HESSLE ROAD

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 08405 27956

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE HESSLE ROAD 680-1/8/169 (North side) Nos.152 AND 154 Former Public Benefit Shoe Company shop at corner of Coltman Street

GV II

Shoe warehouse and shop. 1896, by Gelder & Kitchen of Hull for the Public Benefit Shoe Co. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. Brick with ashlar and granite dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with single ridge and single side wall stacks. String courses, moulded second floor sill band. 3 storeys plus garrets; 6x9 windows. Windows are mainly sashes with 4-pane upper lights and single pane lower lights. Main front, to Hessle Road, has to right a slightly projecting bay with octagonal buttresses topped with turrets and a shaped coped gable with a segmental pediment and finial. On the first floor, 2 stone mullioned cross casements and above, 2 pairs of mullioned windows. In the gable peak, a round window with wreathed surround. To left, a recessed bay with 2 transomed windows and above, 2 segment-headed windows with Tuscan columns between them. To left again, an octagonal corner tower with a rounded lower stage. At second floor level, 3 small windows. Above, a cupola with round-arched windows and Tuscan columns, topped with an octagonal spire ending in a domed turret with flagstaff. Between the first and second floors, an elaborate strapwork frieze in high relief. Below it, at the left corner, a clock flanked by coats of arms, and a small window. On the ground floor, a shop front, returned along the Coltman Street front, with granite pilasters and plinth. Curved brackets to moulded fascia cornice. Recessed central glazed door with round-headed glazed panel and overlight, flanked by single-pane windows with metal-framed toplights. At the left corner, a recessed double doorway with pilasters and blank overlight. Coltman street front has to left a projecting gable similar to that of the Hessle road front. On the first floor, 2 transomed windows and above, 2 flat-headed windows. To right, 3 pairs of transomed windows, and above, 6 segment-headed windows with Tuscan columns between them. Between the first and second floors, a frieze with 2 cartouches to the right. On the ground floor, to left, two 3-light windows. To right, 2 blank single pane shop windows with metal-framed toplights. Beyond, to left, a recessed single bay with a single window to the first and second floors and above again, a pair of smaller windows. On the ground floor, a recessed double door.

Listing NGR: TA0840527956

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
387577
Legacy System:
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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