EXCHANGE BUILDINGS

EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, LOWGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218076
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1973
List Entry Name:: EXCHANGE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, LOWGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218076
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: EXCHANGE BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, LOWGATE

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, LOWGATE

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:: TA1003428743

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/03/2013

TA1028NW 680-1/23/245 12/11/73

KINGSTON UPON HULL LOWGATE (West side) Exchange Buildings

(Formerly Listed as The Exchange, and later listed as Lowgate Courthouse)

GV II

Former public exchange, later courts. 1866, by William Botterill. Converted to courthouse1980-81 by Fisher, Hollingsworth & Partners. Ashlar ground floor and yellow brick upper floors, with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roof. Single ridge and single gable coped and modillioned brick stacks and 2 corniced ashlar side wall stacks. Italianate style. Channelled rusticated ground floor with vermiculated plinth, ground floor cornice, second floor sill band, elaborate modillion eaves. Windows are plain sashes. 3 storeys plus basement; 13x7 windows, with inset rounded corner. Corner entrance bay has double Corinthian pilasters, heavily rusticated on the ground floor and with quoins on the first floor. Tripartite first floor window divided by engaged Corinthian columns and flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Cornice with segmental pediment to projecting centre. Above, tripartite window with Corinthian pilasters and moulded segmental heads with mask keystones. Above the main cornice, a sculptured figure of Britannia. Below, a rusticated round-headed doorway flanked by rusticated pilasters, with an enriched frieze and mask keystone. Double doors with shaped moulded panels and internal stone steps to curved double doors. Left return, to Bowlalley Lane, has round-arched first-floor windows with with linked heads and moulded keystones, arranged 2:1:2:2:1:2:2:1. The paired windows have central Corinthian pilasters. Second floor, articulated by squat pilasters, has similar fenestration with smaller segment-headed windows. Ground floor, articulated by rusticated pilasters, has an off-centre round-arched main doorway with half-glazed double door, overlight and sidelights, flanked by 2 segment-headed tripartite windows with keystones. Beyond, to left, a single doorway, then another tripartite window. To right, a smaller rusticated round-headed doorway with moulded 4-panel door and fanlight. Below, to left, 4 barred basement openings and to right, 2 paired segment-headed openings with keystones. Right return, to Lowgate, has similar fenestration arranged 1:2:1:2:1. Ground floor has 3 rusticated round-headed doorways alternating with 2 tripartite windows, and 4 segment-headed basement openings. INTERIOR: main hall has coved ceiling with coffered panels and drops and a partly glazed barrel vault, 5 bays, with coffered panels and tympana, and ribs with guilloche bands. Walls have round-headed moulded panels separated by pilasters. 2 curved double doors with coats of arms above, and 2 doors at the west end with cornices. South side has a central pair of doors with eared architraves and cornices with crests, and and to left, a single door with cornice. North side has 5 etched glass windows with fanlights. Bowlalley Lane entrance leads to a stone cantilevered dogleg staircase with cast-iron balustrade and wooden handrail. Marble panelled lower flight leads to glazed double doors into former basement clubroom. As well as a shipping exchange, this building also housed a newsroom, offices, a telegraph company, and a club and refreshment room in the basement. It was a comprehensive centre for Hull's commercial life. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire; York and the East Riding: London: 1972-: 277; Anon: Lowgate Courthouse (handbill provided at courthouse): Hull: 1981-).

Listing NGR: TA 10034 28743

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Legacy System number:: 387667
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 277

Legal

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