Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council
ROWTON VILLAS, OFFICES OF HOLDERNESS BOROUGH COUNCIL, HULL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council
- Statutory Address:
- ROWTON VILLAS, OFFICES OF HOLDERNESS BOROUGH COUNCIL, HULL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083425
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROWTON VILLAS, OFFICES OF HOLDERNESS BOROUGH COUNCIL, HULL 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROWTON VILLAS, OFFICES OF HOLDERNESS BOROUGH COUNCIL, HULL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skirlaugh
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 13775 39911
Details
SKIRLAUGH HULL ROAD TA 13 NW (west side) 5/35 Rowton Villas, Offices of Holderness Borough Council - II Workhouse, now council offices. 1838 by John and William Atkinson with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick in English garden wall bond with gauged brick and stone dressings, Welsh slate roof. Approximately U-shaped on plan with projecting centre block of 2 storeys, 7 bays, 2-lower- storey, 3-bay wings to sides and ranges to rear, that to left truncated. Centre block: plinth. Outer bays break forward slightly and are surmounted by pediments, each have 2-storey round-arched recess. Central entrance a 6- fielded-panel double-door with fanlight within gabled brick porch with round-arched opening of gauged brick and moulded barge boards to gable, surmounted by flag-pole. Windows, ground floor: end bays have 20-pane sashes surmounted by pedimented lintel. Otherwise ground floor has 20-pane sashes with radial glazing to head under round arches of gauged brick, with stone sills and recessed brick aprons. First floor has continuous sill band to central bays at level of impost band to windows of outer bays. These are 20-pane sashes with radial glazing to heads under round arches of gauged brick. Centre bays have 20-pane sashes with similar inserted sash between fifth and sixth bays and inserted 8-pane sash between sixth and seventh bays. Frieze. Overhanging eaves. Hipped roof. Rear stacks. Side ranges: that to left has an inserted central entrance a 4-panel door and that to right an inserted off-centre entrance with board door, both with overlights under cambered heads. Otherwise ground floor has four 16-pane sashes to left range and to right range are two 16-pane sashes, a 12-pane sash and two 9-pane casements. First floor: 12-pane casements and unequally-hung sashes under cambered heads. Roofs hipped to outer ends. Ridge stacks. Original signed plans exist in Council offices. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 342.
Listing NGR: TA1377539911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166711
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 342
Legal
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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