Minerva Hotel

MINERVA HOTEL, MINERVA PIER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197699
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Minerva Hotel
Statutory Address:
MINERVA HOTEL, MINERVA PIER
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197699
Date first listed:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
Minerva Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
MINERVA HOTEL, MINERVA PIER

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MINERVA HOTEL, MINERVA PIER

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 09923 28131

Details

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


TA 0928 SE,
680-1/25/258

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
MINERVA PIER (South West side),
Minerva Hotel

GV

II

Public house, built 1828-9, with mid C19 and mid and late C20
alterations. Brick, partly painted, with ashlar and concrete
dressings and hipped and gabled slate roof with two gable and four
ridge stacks. Plinth, first-floor sill band, wooden gutter and
brackets. three storeys; 4x5 windows. Acute angled corner site
with rounded corner. Windows are mainly plain sashes and
2-light casements with glazing bars, all with splayed lintels.
South-east front has four sashes and above, two casements to left
and two 12-pane sashes to right. Below, two margin glazed
windows flanked by splayed concrete doorcases with lintels
inscribed "Minerva". Panelled doors, the right one with
overlight. To left, a fixed 16-pane window. Below the windows,
cellar openings with lintels. Rounded corner, to left, has
fixed 16-pane windows on the lower floors and above, a smaller
16-pane sash. West front has to right a round-arched glazing
bar window flanked to right by a small window, then a plain
sash. To left, three plain sashes. Above, five casements. Below, four
plain sashes to left, and to right a small window, then a
further plain sash. INTERIOR mainly refitted mid C20 and
partly restored late C20.

The first publican Richard Cortis was an active emigration agent during the 1850s



Listing NGR: TA0992328131

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

Legacy System number:
387683
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hall, I, E, , A New Picture of Georgian Hull, (1978), 95 102 112
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 114
Hull Advertiser, (17 May 1850)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Minerva Hotel

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