46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD STREET

46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210124
Date first listed:
22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address:
46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1210124
Date first listed:
22-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD STREET
Statutory Address 1:
46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
46, 48 AND 50, KING EDWARD 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 09504 28932

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE KING EDWARD STREET 680-1/22/222 (North East side) 22/01/90 Nos.46, 48 AND 50

GV II

3 shops with offices above. c1905, with late C20 alterations. Ashlar and brick, with ashlar dressings and slate and copper roofs. Baroque Revival style. Coped parapet. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Acute angled corner site. Main front, to King Edward Street, has the rusticated upper floors articulated by a giant Ionic order under a dentillated cornice. The central 2 bays have Ionic pilasters. On the first floor, 2 plain sashes and above, 2 pairs of plain sashes, all with coved surrounds. Outer bays have dentillated pediments carried on full columns. To left, a 3-light window and above, a triple plain sash. To right, a single plain sash and above, 2 plain sashes with a Doric column between them. Ground floor has 2 late C20 shop fronts divided by pilasters with curved brackets to cornice. Corner facade has on the first floor a semicircular bay window with Ionic half-columns and an ornate copper half-dome. Above again, a hexagonal copper dome with curly volutes and a circular dormer window on each side. Flat topped round lantern with volutes, crowned with a flagpole. Ground floor has late C20 shop front returned on both sides. Waltham Street front, to right, has irregular brick and ashlar banding, with Doric pilasters articulating the upper floors.

Listing NGR: TA0950428932

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
387640
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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