Georgian Houses Wilberforce House Museum
GEORGIAN HOUSES, 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283087
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Georgian Houses Wilberforce House Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GEORGIAN HOUSES, 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283087
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Georgian Houses Wilberforce House Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GEORGIAN HOUSES, 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WILBERFORCE HOUSE MUSEUM, 23 AND 24, HIGH 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.
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:
- GEORGIAN HOUSES, 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WILBERFORCE HOUSE MUSEUM, 23 AND 24, HIGH STREET
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 10240 28854
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA1028NW HIGH STREET 680-1/23/176 (South East side) 13/10/52 Nos.23 AND 24 Georgian Houses (part of Wilberforce House Museum) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.23) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.24)
GV II
2 houses, now part of the Wilberforce House Museum (qv). c1760, restored c1945, incorporated into museum 1956. For James Hamilton, tar merchant. Brick with painted ashlar dressings and pantile roofs with 2 side wall stacks. Plinth, ground floor and first-floor sill bands, coped parapet. 3 storeys; 6 window range of 12-pane sashes. Windows have brick flat arches and keystones. Above again, six 9-pane sashes. paired central ashlar doorcase with 3 Roman Ionic half-columns, pulvinated frieze, dentillated cornice and pediment. Fielded 6-panel doors. On either side, 2 dummy windows. INTERIOR has central entrance hall divided by fluted Ionic plaster columns, with fielded panelled dado and enriched cornices. 2 fielded 6-panel doors. On either side, a round-arched opening leading to a stairwell with wooden dogleg stair with vase and stem balusters and ramped scrolled handrail. On the landing, a Venetian window. First floor front rooms have enriched dentillated cornices and fireplaces flanked by round-headed recesses. (History of Wilberforce House: Rutherford, I: Hull).
Listing NGR: TA1024028854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rutherford, I, History of Wilberforce House, ()
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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