Entrance Gateway to Pickering Park and Adjoining Pickering Rest Homes
ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO PICKERING PARK AND ADJOINING PICKERING REST HOMES, HESSLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209532
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Pickering Park and Adjoining Pickering Rest Homes
- Statutory Address:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO PICKERING PARK AND ADJOINING PICKERING REST HOMES, HESSLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209532
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Entrance Gateway to Pickering Park and Adjoining Pickering Rest Homes
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO PICKERING PARK AND ADJOINING PICKERING REST HOMES, HESSLE 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:
- ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO PICKERING PARK AND ADJOINING PICKERING REST HOMES, HESSLE 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:
- TA 05682 27171
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA02NE HESSLE ROAD 680-1/8/166 (North side) Entrance gateway to Pickering Park and adjoining Pickering Rest Homes
GV II
Park gateway and adjoining old people's homes. Dated 1909. By JH Hirst, City Architect. Cast-iron gates with wrought-iron decoration, almshouses brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Pair of square openwork cast-iron gatepiers with cornices and wrought-iron finials, with central pair of scroll top iron gates. On either side, a railing with smaller openwork piers, with segment-headed gate under a crest. Beyond, 3 sections of lower railing, then a round-arched gate with crest. On either side, a block of 6 almshouses set at a slight angle. Single storey; 6 window range. Plinth and 3 coped square ridge stacks. In the centre, a parapeted triple bay with a central triangular pediment and below it, a shaped panel inscribed "Pickering Rest Homes". 2 close boarded doors flanked by 4-light stone mullioned glazing bar windows. Beyond, a loggia with 2 round-arched openings, covering two 2-light windows and 2 doors. Beyond again, 2 doors flanked by single projecting through-eaves dormers with massive coped gables and 4-light mullioned windows. At either end, a round-arched opening covering a 2-light window and door.
Listing NGR: TA0568227171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387587
- 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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