Town Hall Chambers

TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, ALFRED GELDER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197684
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Town Hall Chambers
Statutory Address:
TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, ALFRED GELDER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197684
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Town Hall Chambers
Statutory Address 1:
TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, ALFRED GELDER STREET
Statutory Address 2:
TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, QUAY STREET

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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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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:
TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, ALFRED GELDER STREET
Statutory Address:
TOWN HALL CHAMBERS, QUAY STREET

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:
TA0986428829

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017


TA 0928 NE,
680-1/22/315

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
QUAY STREET (West side),
Town Hall Chambers

GV

II

Office building. Built 1902 to designs of Llewellyn Kitchen of Gelder & Kitchen.
Brick with ashlar dressings and plain
tile roof with two ridge, single side wall and single gable
stacks, all coped. Plinth, quoins, first-floor band, moulded
eaves. Two storeys; 8x3 windows. Composite windows with
segment-headed lower light and 2-light mullioned upper part
with leaded glazing. Off-centre entrance bay has panelled
ashlar flanking pilasters and dentillated pediment. Single
first floor window and below, a doorway with steps, keystone
and festoons, half-glazed double doors and glazing bar
fanlight. On each floor, five windows to left and two to right.
Left return, to Alfred Gelder Street, has a similar pedimented
entrance bay flanked on each floor by two windows to left and
single windows to right. Right return has two windows and below,
three windows.


Listing NGR: TA0986428829

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
387751
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 103

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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