HULL NEW THEATRE

HULL NEW THEATRE, JARRATT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210061
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: HULL NEW THEATRE
Statutory Address:: HULL NEW THEATRE, JARRATT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210061
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: HULL NEW THEATRE
Statutory Address 1:: HULL NEW THEATRE, JARRATT STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HULL NEW THEATRE, JARRATT 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 09740 29178

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 0929 SE, 680-1/18/220

KINGSTON UPON HULL, JARRATT STREET (North side), Hull New Theatre

(Formerly Listed as: JARRATT STREET (North side) The New Theatre)

12/11/73

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II

Former assembly rooms, now theatre. Designed by Charles Mountain junior, built 1830-33. The rooms were converted into the New Theatre in 1939 by the architects R. Cromie & W.B. Wheatley. Painted stucco. Classical Revival style. Plinth, first-floor band, moulded cornice and entablature, coped parapet. Two storeys; 11x5 bays. Entrance front, to Kingston Square, has bays defined by giant pilasters and a central portico with four giant Ionic columns on pedestals. Between the columns is a late C20 transom decorated with a metal round arch in each bay. The spaces above the transom are glazed. On either side, a single blank on each floor. Within the portico, three blank windows and below them, three round-arched windows. Below these, three pairs of doors with segment-headed glazing. Right return, to Jarratt Street, has a projecting central feature with four giant engaged Ionic columns framing single blank windows on each floor. On either side, 3-bay wings defined by giant pilasters. To right, three 12-pane sashes and below them, three round windows. Below these, a central sash flanked by single doors, the left door smaller. The doors and the sash windows have keystone lintels. To left, three blank windows and below, a door to left and two blank windows to right, all with keystone lintels. Projecting end bays, defined by giant pilasters. To right, a 12-pane sash and below, a recessed door. To left, a single blank window on each floor. INTERIOR remodelled 1938 and 1985.

Listing NGR: TA0974029178

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Legacy System number:: 387638
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 129

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.