Former Constitutional Club

FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 14 AND 16, WHITBY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250673
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Former Constitutional Club
Statutory Address:
FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 14 AND 16, WHITBY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250673
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:
Former Constitutional Club
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 14 AND 16, WHITBY STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB, 14 AND 16, WHITBY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 51194 32556

Details

NZ 5132
11/136

HARTLEPOOL,
WHITBY STREET (west side),
Nos. 14 and 16 (Former Constitutional Club)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 14 and 16 (Constitutional Club))

8.6.84

II

Club; 1906; brick with red sandstone and terracotta dressings. Welsh slate
with clay ridge crestings and corniced brick stacks. Northern Renaissance
style. 3 storeys, 7-bay ground floor, 5-bay upper floors, the 2nd and 4th
being narrow linking bays between the projecting centre bay, under a tall
mansard with flanking stacks, and the outer bays whose shaped and pedimented
gables have inward-scrolled feet. Central round-headed porch opening with
Art Nouveau iron gates, flanked by round-headed windows and pilasters
supporting curved balcony with iron railings; first-floor round-headed
French door with fanlight and sidelights; all within 2-storey
elliptical-arched recess with triple keystone. Paired round-headed sashes
above, under name panel: 'CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB'; ramped parapet with urn
angle finials and an upright bulls-eye in the mansard. 2nd and 6th bays of
ground floor have round-headed subsidiary doorways flanked by round-headed
windows to outer bays and elliptical-arched windows to inner bays. Outer
bays of first floor have mullioned-and-transomed 8-light enriched oriels,
supported on brackets rising from pilasters flanking ground-floor subsidiary
doors; plain sashes with overlights to inner bays. 2nd floor has
round-headed windows with enriched keystones, to outer bays; and plain
sashes to inner bays. Mosaic floor inside centre doorway.


Listing NGR: NZ5119432556

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Legacy System number:
433126
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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