University of Hull Wharfe Building and Attached Gateway

UNIVERSITY OF HULL WHARFE BUILDING AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, COTTINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197596
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
University of Hull Wharfe Building and Attached Gateway
Statutory Address:
UNIVERSITY OF HULL WHARFE BUILDING AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197596
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
University of Hull Wharfe Building and Attached Gateway
Statutory Address 1:
UNIVERSITY OF HULL WHARFE BUILDING AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, COTTINGHAM 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
UNIVERSITY OF HULL WHARFE BUILDING AND ATTACHED GATEWAY, COTTINGHAM 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 07552 31617

Details

The entry for:-

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA03SE COTTINGHAM ROAD 680-1/4/100 (North side) Humberside University Marvell Building and attached gateway

GV II

Shall be replaced by:-

TA03SE COTTINGHAM ROAD 680-1/4/100 University of Hull Wharfe Building and attached 24-1-94 gateway

GV II

Formerly known as: College of Education COTTINGHAM ROAD. University office building and attached gateway. 1909-1913. By Crouch, Butler & Savage. Brick and ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate hipped and mansard roofs with 8 panelled coped stacks. Central block with flanking wings and projecting end pavilions. Main block has a hipped centre, 4 storeys, with 3-storey parapeted side bays. 3-window range. Quoins, third floor sill band, swept parapets. In the centre, a tall 4-light cross mullioned window. Side bays have a tall stone surround with keystone and a 16-pane sash on each floor. Above again, a checkerboard panel and a Diocletian window with keystone. On the ground floor, a plain stone doorway with pilasters, flanked by small single-light windows and beyond, canted stone bay windows with cross casements and topped with latticework balconies. Continuous lintel band. Above the door, a swan neck pediment embracing a 3-light mullioned window with open pediment and double keystone. Flanking wings, 2 storeys plus attics, have five 12-pane sashes to first floor and attic dormers, and 16-pane sashes below, with round-arched recesses and double keystones. Parapeted end pavilions have a single sash on the ground and first floors and above again, a square latticed window with moulded surround. Right return has a 2-storey central entrance bay with stepped parapet, flanked by polychrome pilasters with cornices. On the first floor, a French window with overlight, and above, a French window with fanlight and wrought-iron balcony. On either side, a square latticed window. Ground floor has a full-width canted projection with latticework balcony and central porch with 2 Tuscan columns in antis, flanked by single canted stone bay windows with cross casements. Central glazed double door with overlight. At the left end, a gateway linking the Marvell Building with the Library. Central opening flanked by square polychrome gatepiers with plinths and cornices. Beyond, short coped walls, each with a round-arched pedestrian gateway with keystone and blank fanlight. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner: Yorkshire: York & the East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 284).

Listing NGR: TA0755231617

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
387515
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 284

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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