KING ALBERT CHAMBERS

KING ALBERT CHAMBERS, JAMESON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197719
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: KING ALBERT CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: KING ALBERT CHAMBERS, JAMESON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197719
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: KING ALBERT CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: KING ALBERT CHAMBERS, JAMESON STREET

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:: KING ALBERT CHAMBERS, JAMESON 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:: TA0941128846

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NW JAMESON STREET 680-1/21/209 (South side) King Albert Chambers

GV II

Offices and shops. Designed 1915 by T Beecroft Atkinson of Hull, and completed 1923. Late C20 alterations. Red brick with white faience tile dressings and plain tile roofs. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. Rusticated pilasters, moulded main cornice, modillion eaves. 3 storeys plus attics; 7-window range. 3-storey rear range in similar style. Central entrance bay has a 2-storey round-arched recess containing a 2-storey semicircular oriel window with cross casements with leaded glazing, and balustrade to the first floor. On the first floor, on either side, a single cross casement and beyond, a pair of similar windows. Above, similar fenestration with 2-light round-arched plain sashes with traceried heads and moulded round-arched surrounds. Below the windows, moulded panels with lozenges. Attic storey has a central through-eaves dormer behind a balustrade, with an elaborate stepped gable supported by volutes and topped with a segmental pediment. Single plain sash with moulded round-arched tympanun and shaped keystone. On either side, 2 plain sashes. Beyond, on either side, a very large and elaborate stepped gable with volutes and obelisk finials, topped with a pediment. Triple plain sash with cornices and central segmental pediment. Ground floor has a central moulded round-arched doorway with keystone and lintel inscribed "King Albert Chambers". On either side, 2 shop fronts, altered late C20, separated by heavily rusticated pilasters carrying curved brackets to a continuous fascia cornice. Right return, to Little Queen Street, has similar fenestration. First and second floors have 2 windows to left and to right, an entrance bay defined by pilasters, with a single window on each floor. Attic has 4 plain sashes. Ground floor has a continuation of the main shop front, with a late C20 shop window and corner doorway. To right, a moulded round-arched double doorway with keystone and flanking pilasters, divided by a central pier and transom. To right again, a 3-storey range, 4 windows, in a simpler style. 2 cross casements flanked by single 3-light cross casements, and above, 6 plain sashes. Below, 2 altered 2-light windows flanked by single round-arched moulded doorways with keystones and relief panelled fanlights.

Listing NGR: TA0941128846

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Legacy System number:: 387627
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.