FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK

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:: FORMER YORKSHIRE BANK, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 387759
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.