Former Yorkshire Bank
FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219032
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219032
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Yorkshire Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, QUEEN VICTORIA 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:
- FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, QUEEN VICTORIA 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:
- TA0965028808
Details
TA0928NE
680-1/22/323
KINGSTON UPON HULL
QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE (North side)
Former Yorkshire Bank
(Formerly listed as Yorkshire Bank)
GV II
Former Bank. 1898. By BS Jacobs. Brick with faience front, terracotta
dressings and granite plinth, with plain tile mansard roof and
single brick gable and rear wall stacks. Renaissance Revival
style. String courses, moulded main cornice, coped parapet. 3
storeys plus attics; 9x5 windows. Acute angled corner site.
Corner entrance has an octagonal oriel window, 3 storeys, with
3 plain windows of diminishing sizes on each floor. Above the
parapet, a drum tower with dentillated cornice, round windows
and keystones, divided by strapwork pilasters. Conical tile
roof with 4 gabled dormers, topped with octagonal domed
lantern with ball finial. On ground floor, a round-arched
doorway with grille to overlight and pair of panelled doors,
set in a pilastered surround with pediment on curved brackets.
Left front, to Savile Street, has round-arched single-pane
windows with transoms, keystones and enriched spandrels,
arranged 3:2:2:2 and divided by heavily rusticated pilasters
under a pulvinated frieze and cornice.
Second floor has smaller flat-headed windows similarly
arranged, divided by paired pilasters and each with a
triangular pediment. Attic storey has panelled parapet with
pedestals topped with urns, and 4 shouldered pedimented
dormers each with a 2-light casement. Ground floor has 4
moulded round-arched openings each with a transomed 3-light
window with glazing bars in the upper lights. The left window
is altered to contain a C20 door with sidelight.
Right front, to New Cross Street, is of similar design, with 5
windows on the upper floors, 2 dormers, and 2 ground-floor
windows. On the ground floor, to right, a small pedimented
window with a round window above it.
Listing NGR: TA0965028808
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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