Hull New Theatre
HULL NEW THEATRE, JARRATT STREET
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Overview
- 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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Official list entry
- 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
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:
- 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
GV
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387638
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 129
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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