Imperial Chambers
IMPERIAL CHAMBERS, BOWLALLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197627
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- IMPERIAL CHAMBERS, BOWLALLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197627
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Imperial Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- IMPERIAL CHAMBERS, BOWLALLEY LANE
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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:
- IMPERIAL CHAMBERS, BOWLALLEY LANE
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 09966 28717
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0928NE BOWLALLEY LANE 680-1/22/74 (South side) Imperial Chambers
GV II
Office building. 1876. By WH Kitching. Yellow and red brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. 2 gable and single ridge coped brick stacks, one of them rebuilt. Venetian Gothic style. Plinth, channelled basement, ground floor cornice, sill and impost bands, moulded cornice with brackets and blocking. 3 storeys plus basement; 4x3 bays. Corner site with angle blind corner. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Main front, to Bowlalley Lane, has an off-centre entrance bay with a 2-light window running through 2 storeys, with panelled pilasters carrying a triangular open pediment. 2 round-arched plain sashes with central shafts, each with a low-set transom with a round window below it. To right, a segment-arched opening with hoodmould and finial, with 2 round-arched plain sashes divided by a central shaft. To left, 2 similar windows. Right return, to Land of Green Ginger, has 3 similar windows. Above, to right, a pair of round-arched plain sashes with central brick mullion, and to left, 2 similar windows. Right return has 3 similar windows. Ground floor has elaborate entrance with double pilasters on rusticated brick pedestals carrying a cornice on brackets. Round arched doorway with carved tympanum and panelled double doors. To right, a large plain sash with moulded segment-headed surround and finial. To left, 2 similar windows. Right return has 2 similar windows and between them, a similar surround with central mullion and 2 plain sashes. Each front has 3 segment-headed basement openings, now blocked. (Hull City Records Office document: OBLM 4949).
Listing NGR: TA0996628717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387478
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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