Hull and East Riding Museum
HULL AND EAST RIDING MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197752
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Hull and East Riding Museum
- Statutory Address:
- HULL AND EAST RIDING MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197752
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hull and East Riding Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- HULL AND EAST RIDING MUSEUM, HIGH STREET
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:
- HULL AND EAST RIDING MUSEUM, HIGH 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:
- TA 10222 28732
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA1028NW HIGH STREET 680-1/23/193 (South East side) 12/11/73 Hull and East Riding Museum (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) Transport Museum)
GV II
Former corn exchange, now museum. Dated 1885, by Bellamy & Hardy of Lincoln. Converted to museum 1925. Largely rebuilt c1950, following wartime damage. Brick with ashlar front. Roof not visible. Classical revival style. Plinth, lintel and sill bands, modillion main cornice and similar cornice to attic storey; pierced coped balustrade. 2 storeys plus basement and attics; 3-window range. Projecting central entrance bay rises through 2 floors, with round-arched opening with mask keystone and spandrels sculptured with symbols of agriculture and prosperity, flanked by Corinthian half-columns. Margin glazed fanlight. Pair of well designed wrought-iron gates inscribed with the architects' names and the date. On either side, a tripartite casement window on each floor, with stone mullions. The smaller first-floor windows have small balustraded balconies on brackets. Attic storey has 3 round-arched windows with moulded heads and keystones and detached inner stone ring. The central window is flanked by enriched square double columns and brackets carrying breaks in the crowning entablature, which are topped with pedestals and urns. Central half-round centre panel with the arms of Hull, topped with an anthemion. INTERIOR rebuilt c1950. (Buildings of England: N Pevsner: Yorkshire: York & the East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 276).
Listing NGR: TA1022228732
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387612
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 276
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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