NUMBERS 53 AND 55 SPRING BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53 AND 55, SPRING BANK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219347
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 53 AND 55 SPRING BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53 AND 55, SPRING BANK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219347
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 53 AND 55 SPRING BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53 AND 55, SPRING BANK

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:: NUMBERS 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53 AND 55, SPRING BANK

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:: TA0890729335

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

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KINGSTON UPON HULL, SPRING BANK (South West side), Nos. 53 and 55 and attached railings

II

Two houses, now houses and shops, and attached railings. c1830, with late C20 alterations. MATERIALS: brick with slate roofs and single gable and single ridge stacks.

EXTERIOR: rusticated basement, moulded wood modillion eaves. Three storeys plus basements; four-window range of 12-pane sashes with keystone lintels. Above, four nine-pane sashes with similar lintels. Below, two moulded doorcases with steps and wrought-iron spearhead balustrades, and doors with three shaped fielded panels and overlights, the right one margin glazed. Alternating with the doors, a plain sash to left and a 12-pane sash to right, with moulded surrounds. All these openings have cornices on consoles. Basement has, to left, a plain sash and to right, a triple plain sash. Outside, wrought-iron spearhead area railings with gates.

HISTORY: 53 and 55 Spring Bank were part of Belgrave Terrace built about 1830. The children’s writer Mrs OF Walton [Amy Catherine Walton] (1849-1939, author of Christie’s Old Organ (1874), Little Dot (1973) and A Peep Behing the Scenes (1877) was born at 5 Belgrave Terrace which map evidence indicates was the present 55 Spring Bank. Walton was the daughter of the Red John Deck, vicar of St Stephen’s, Hull, and she was resident in Hull, latterly around the corner in Park Street, until her marriage in 1875. Her best-selling novels were evangelical in tone and were very popular Sunday School prizes.

Listing NGR: TA0890729335

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

Legacy System number:: 387801
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hull Census Returns 1851-71
Websites
Jay, E, ‘Walton, Any Catherine (1849-1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 12 Sept 2016 from http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59006

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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.