International House
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, 96 AND 98, WESTBOURNE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197673
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- International House
- Statutory Address:
- INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, 96 AND 98, WESTBOURNE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197673
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- International House
- Statutory Address 1:
- INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, 96 AND 98, WESTBOURNE AVENUE
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:
- INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, 96 AND 98, WESTBOURNE AVENUE
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:
- TA0782530173
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0730SE WESTBOURNE AVENUE
680-1/13/382 (North side)
12/11/73 Nos.96 AND 98
International House
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTBOURNE AVENUE
No.96)
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTBOURNE AVENUE
No.98)
GV II
2 houses, now students' hostel. 1877-79, with mid and late C20
additions and alterations. Probably by George Gilbert Scott,
Junior for John Spyvee Cooper. Brick with pargeted panels and
hipped plain tile roofs, each with a single side wall stack.
Queen Anne style. Brick plinth and string courses, pargeted
friezes to returns, rebated eaves with wooden gutters. Windows
mainly have brick flat arches. 2 storeys plus attics; 5-window
range.
No.96, to right, has a flat front divided by pargeted panels,
with a central blocked window flanked by pairs of 8-pane
sashes, one of those to the left blocked. Above, large central
brick dormer with a segment-headed plain sash flanked by brick
pilasters, with a flat roof formerly topped with a dome. On
either side, a smaller hipped dormer with a 2-light casement.
Below, a round-arched brick doorcase with hoodmould and above
it, a 2-light window. C20 glazed door with side and top
lights. On either side, a square brick bay window with a pair
of 8-pane sashes. To left, a mid C20 link building, 2 storeys,
with two 12-pane sashes on each floor.
No.98, to left. has a recessed centre with an 8-pane sash and
above, a hipped dormer with a 2-light glazing bar casement.
Below, a projecting brick doorcase with multiple brick
heystones. C20 half-glazed double door with cornice and
segment-headed 3-pane overlight with wooden mullions.
Flanking bays have each a pair of 8-pane sashes and above, a
shouldered shaped gable topped with a brick pediment and
containing a wider 8-pane sash. Below, each has a square brick
bay window with a pair of segment-headed 8-pane sashes. Left
return has to left, a pair of 8-pane sashes and below, a
single-storey C20 addition cutting across the windows. At the
rear, a range of 3-storey C20 additions.
These buildings are part of a group of 8 houses by Scott, who
was a leading exponent of the Queen Anne style. They are said
to be the sole surviving examples of his highly regarded
domestic architecture.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East
Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 284; Padgett B & Moore N: George
Gilbert Scott Houses in Kingston upon Hull).
Listing NGR: TA0782530173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387833
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Badgett, P, Moore, N, George Gilbert Scott Houses in Kingston Upon Hull, ()
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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