QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE AND PUBLIC TOILETS

PUBLIC TOILETS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197686
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE AND PUBLIC TOILETS
Statutory Address:: PUBLIC TOILETS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197686
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE AND PUBLIC TOILETS
Statutory Address 1:: PUBLIC TOILETS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:: QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: PUBLIC TOILETS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
Statutory Address:: QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE

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:: TA0962728760

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE 680-1/22/321 Queen Victoria statue and public toilets

GV II

Statue and public toilets. Statue 1903, by C Fehr. Toilets c1925, restored 1989. Larger than life-size standing bronze figure in Imperial robes. Rectangular Portland stone pedestal with cornice and rusticated coved corners. Ends have relief panels and inscriptions. North and south sides have larger than life-size allegorical female figures on pedestals, linked to main pedestal by moulded string course. Double chamfered plinth and stepped base. Toilet, grey granite. Elliptical plan, mainly below ground, with central platform on which the statue stands. Corniced balustrade with chamfered coping, divided into 4 sections, each ending with panelled rectangular pedestals topped with a cast-iron latticework globe lamp. Between the pedestals, a plain low wall with opening to steps. Between the sections of balustrade, curved steps to the central platform. INTERIOR retains original earthenware stalls, cisterns and cubicles in Gents section. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire; York and The East Riding: London: 1972-: 278).

Listing NGR: TA0962728760

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Legacy System number:: 387757
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 278

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.