SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB

SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB, WILSON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137368
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB
Statutory Address:: SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB, WILSON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1137368
Date first listed:: 28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB, WILSON STREET

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

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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:: SHOWBOAT SOCIAL CLUB, WILSON STREET

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District:: Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 49380 20581

Details

MIDDLESBROUGH WILSON STREET, NZ 4920 NW south side. 7/94 Showboat Social Club. G.V. II Theatre, 1906/08 by C.F. Ward (Birmingham), Converted to cinema 1913, ballroom 1956, and social club 1968. Brick, with painted buff-terracotta dressings. Welsh slate roofs. Classical style. 2 storeys and mezzanine. One-bay centre flanked by slightly-projecting one-bay staircase towers. Centre has renewed doors in wide chamfered opening under renewed fascia. Blocked semi-circular mezzanine window in heavily-moulded surround. Enriched keystone and spandrels. 3-bay quasi-Ionic Order, on first floor with blocked windows, segment-plan balustraded balconies, and segmental pediment with enriched escutcheon over middle, flanked by balustraded parapets. Towers have renewed doors in corniced architraves, and blocked 3-light windows on ground floor. Blocked semi-circular mezzanine windows with keyed archivolts and shaped aprons. Rusticated clasping pilaster strips, on 2nd stage, flanking blocked round-headed windows with blind tympana and enriched aprons, in segmental-pedimented quasi-Ionic surrounds, with enriched tympana and spandrels. Coved top cornice, and pyramidal roofs with wood lanterns. Lower one-bay left wing has oculi with keyed architraves and enriched aprons, on mezzanine and left first floor. Ground floor altered. 3-storey 5-bay right dressing-room wing; has segmental pediments over blocked paired windows flanked by pilaster strips. Altered on ground floor left. 2-bay staircase wing further right. Formerly known. as Hippodrome Theatre/Cinema, and Astoria Ballroom.

Listing NGR: NZ4938020581

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Legacy System number:: 59811
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.