Hull Charterhouse and Attached Boundary Wall and Railings
HULL CHARTERHOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHATERHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1208200
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Hull Charterhouse and Attached Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- HULL CHARTERHOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHATERHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1208200
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hull Charterhouse and Attached Boundary Wall and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- HULL CHARTERHOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHATERHOUSE LANE
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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 CHARTERHOUSE AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS, CHATERHOUSE LANE
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 10042 29353
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA1029SW CHARTERHOUSE LANE 680-1/19/84 (North side) 13/10/52 Hull Charterhouse and attached boundary wall and railings (Formerly Listed as: CHARTERHOUSE LANE The Hull Charterhouse)
GV I
Almshouse and attached boundary wall and railings. 1778-80, with C19 rear addition. By Joseph Hargrave. Brick with painted ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs topped with a large wooden cupola with 6 Ionic columns and lead dome. 10 brick ridge stacks, some of them renewed. Plinth, dentillated eaves cornice and pediment. 2 storeys; main range of 7 windows with projecting pedimented centre of 3 windows, flanked by wings each of 3 windows. Windows are 12-pane sashes with painted brick flat arches. Central pediment has a coat of arms. Semicircular Roman Doric portico with 2 columns and leaded half-dome, the frieze with Latin inscription. The openings have wrought-iron railings and gates. Recessed doorway flanked by Doric columns and half-columns. Returns have each five 12-pane sashes on each floor, those nearest the front blank. Hipped 2-storey rear addition has 4 windows on each floor and 4 stacks. INTERIOR has spinal corridors. Notable chapel with moulded cornice and 3-compartment ceiling with central glazed dome. Round arched window at either end. Elegant Classical wooden doorcase in the centre of one long wall, with frieze with floral swags and segmental pediment. Glazed double doors with glazing bars. Opposite the door, a semicircular wooden pulpit set into the wall, with carved ogee bracket and half-round sounding board. Below it, clerk's desk and enclosing rail with spindle turned balusters. Altar rail, at right end, has heavy turned balusters. Outside, cast-iron spearhead railings running between the wings, with brick plinth, ashlar coping and central gate. The Hull Charterhouse was founded by the eminent merchant Michael de la Pole in 1384. (Hall I & E: Georgian Hull: York: 1978-1979: 34,65,97,99).
Listing NGR: TA1004529355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, I, E, , A New Picture of Georgian Hull, (1978), 34 and 65
Hall, I, E, , A New Picture of Georgian Hull, (1978), 97 and 99
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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