Paragon Station Station Hotel
PARAGON STATION, PARAGON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218434
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Station Station Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- PARAGON STATION, PARAGON SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218434
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Station Station Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARAGON STATION, PARAGON SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- STATION HOTEL, PARAGON SQUARE
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:
- PARAGON STATION, PARAGON SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- STATION HOTEL, PARAGON SQUARE
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 09177 28803
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0928NW PARAGON SQUARE 680-1/21/267 (West side) 13/10/52 Paragon Station and Station Hotel
GV II*
Railway station and adjoining hotel. 1846 and 1849. By GT Andrews. For the North Eastern Railway Co. Train shed, booking hall, cafe and hotel extensions 1903-05, by William Bell. The hotel was further extended c1936, and restored 1990-92 after serious fire damage. The station is rectangular, approx 100m x 180m. The original station buildings, running east-west, are on the south side, parallel to the tracks. On their north side, the platforms and train shed. The hotel and booking offices are at the east end, running north-south. The original buildings are ashlar with slate roofs. Italianate style, with plinths and modillion main cornices. Windows are mainly plain sashes with moulded surrounds. Booking office and train shed, ashlar and yellow brick. Symmetrical south front has a central block and end pavilions, all hipped. Central block, 2 storeys, 5 windows, has an infilled porte-cochere with paired columns. Upper windows with alternating pediments, divided by paired pilasters. Single storey links, 10 and 9 bays, have off-centre doorways, the right with a portico. Left pavilion, 2 storeys, 3 windows. Right pavilion, raised early C20, 3 storeys, 5 windows, with central doorway. To its right, a link to the hotel, with 2 round arches. The hotel, 3 storeys plus attics, has a recessed centre with a first floor balcony and 5 round-arched windows divided by columns. Short wings with 2 windows. Beyond, similar mid C20 wings, rendered brick, set back. Mansard roof with attic windows. Left return the same, partly covered by additions. Train shed has 5 segment-arched glazed canopies over the platforms, and 2 set crosswise over the concourse. Wrought-iron ribs and lattice girders carried on cast-iron columns. North side has a round-arched arcade, 25 bays, with glazing and entrances. INTERIOR: booking hall has elaborate glazed brick and faience decoration, arcaded round-arched windows, and coved matchboard roof with skylights. Central wooden ticket office in the same style. The concourse has a round-arched arcade on the east side, 20 bays, with windows and entrances. On the concourse, a freestanding wooden cafe, single-storey, 3x5 windows, with a wavy coped parapet and Art Nouveau detail. On the north side, a range of wooden offices, 2 storeys, with glazing bar windows. Paragon Station is the only terminus station built by the North Eastern Railway. Queen Victoria stayed at the hotel in 1854. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire East Riding: London: 1961-: 274; ).
Listing NGR: TA0917728803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387692
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 274
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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