No. 161, HIGH STREET
161, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209756
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- No. 161, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 161, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209756
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- No. 161, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 161, 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:
- 161, 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:
- TA1018028764
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017
TA 1028 NW,
680-1/23/191
KINGSTON UPON HULL,
HIGH STREET (West side),
No. 161
GV
II
Office building. Built by 1898, Phoenix Chambers, 161 High Street,
was designed by B. S. Jacobs of Hull. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled
and hipped slate roof with two gable and single ridge stacks,
all coped. Ashlar plinth with channelled rustication,
ground-floor lintel and sill bands, frieze with relief panels
and swags, dentillated eaves. Two storeys plus attics; 4x6
windows. Windows are mainly plain sashes. First-floor windows
have cornices. High Street front has four windows and above, a
coped parapet with two dormers with pilasters and shouldered
pediments, each with a 3-light wooden cross casement. Below,
an off-centre flat-headed doorway with steps and a segmental
pediment, flanked to left by two windows and to right by a
single window. Angled corner, to right, has three windows on the
lower floors. Attic has a large canted dormer with central
pediment containing a coat of arms and three wooden cross
casements. Right return, to Chapel Lane, has six windows on the
lower floors. Attic has two hipped dormers with ogee lead roofs
and single-light windows.
Listing NGR: TA1018028764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 91
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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