Ferens Haven and Boundary Wall
FERENS HAVEN AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLDERNESS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197755
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ferens Haven and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- FERENS HAVEN AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLDERNESS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197755
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Ferens Haven and Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FERENS HAVEN AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLDERNESS ROAD
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:
- FERENS HAVEN AND BOUNDARY WALL, HOLDERNESS ROAD
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:
- TA1242031077
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA13SW HOLDERNESS ROAD
680-1/5/200 (North West side)
Ferens' Havens and boundary walls
GV II
Almshouses, now old people's homes, and boundary walls. Dated
1911. By Runton & Barry. Paid for by Rt Hon TR Ferens. Brick
with ashlar and brick dressings and plain tile roofs with 16
ridge stacks. Plinth, coped gables to dormers. Single storey;
12x6 windows. C plan, around 3 sides of a sunken garden.
Symmetrical main range has a central gabled entrance with a
moulded brick round-arched doorway, and above it, an inscribed
square datestone. On either side, a gabled dormer with a
canted 3-light mullioned bay window. Beyond, two 3-light
mullioned windows flanked by single segment-headed doorways.
Beyond again, a pair of gables with 3-light bay windows.
Beyond, a further doorway and a 3-light mullioned window. At
the angles, a splayed wall with a round-arched doorway.
Side wings have a central pair of dormers with canted bay
windows, flanked by single doors and beyond, single 3-light
windows. Cross wings at the outer ends have a central
elliptical-arched doorway with datestone under stepped
hoodmould, flanked by single dormers with bay windows. The
terrace in front of the houses has a retaining wall with
pierced balustrade. At the inner angles, steps with square
piers and ball finials. Outside, an attached brick boundary
wall with chamfered brick balusters and stone coping, with
square brick piers and ball finials. Central gateway with a
pair of larger square piers with stone caps and ball finials.
Listing NGR: TA1242031077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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