University of Hull Esk Building and Nidd Building
UNIVERSITY OF HULL ESK BUILDING AND NIDD BUILDING, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197598
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- University of Hull Esk Building and Nidd Building
- Statutory Address:
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL ESK BUILDING AND NIDD BUILDING, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197598
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-2005
- List Entry Name:
- University of Hull Esk Building and Nidd Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL ESK BUILDING AND NIDD BUILDING, COTTINGHAM ROAD
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.
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:
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL ESK BUILDING AND NIDD BUILDING, 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 07455 31624
Details
The entry for:
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA03SE COTTINGHAM ROAD 680-1/4/104 (North side) Humberside University Wilberforce Hall and Milner Hall
GV II
Shall be replaced by:
TA03SE COTTINGHAM ROAD 680-1 (North side) University of Hull GV Esk Building and Nidd Building
21-1-94 II
Formerly known as: College of Education COTTINGHAM ROAD. University halls of residence and offices, and attached wall. 1909-1913. By Crouch, Butler & Savage. Brick and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and slate hipped and mansard roofs with 6 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. Left return has a projecting central bay flanked by polychrome pilasters with cornices, and stepped parapet. On the first floor, a French window with overlight, and above, a similar French window with fanlight and wrought-iron balcony. On either side, square latticed windows. Below, a full-width projection with balustraded balcony and central porch with 2 Tuscan columns in antis, flanked by canted bay windows with cross casements. Central glazed double doors with overlight. Milner Hall, at the rear, has an identical facade. The ranges are linked towards the south end by a single-storey corridor, 7 windows, with lattice balustrade. Central glazed double door with overlight, flanked by 3 windows, all with double keystones and set in round-arched recesses. 3-storey returns have 5 windows on each floor and projecting single end bays with first floor fire escapes. Linking the end bays, a low latticework brick wall with stone coping and central steps flanked by curved walls. Steps have matching balustrades and square pedestals with ball finials. (Buildings of England: Pevsner T: Yorkshire: York & the East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 284).
Listing NGR: TA0745531624
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
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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