Punch Hotel
PUNCH HOTEL, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291699
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Punch Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- PUNCH HOTEL, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291699
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Punch Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUNCH HOTEL, 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:
- PUNCH HOTEL, 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:
- TA0959428725
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
680-1/22/320 (South West side)
12/11/73 Punch Hotel
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
(South side)
The Punch Bowl)
GV II
Public house. 1898. By Smith, Brodrick & Lowther. For the Hull
Brewery Co. Brick with granite plinth and terracotta dressings
and plain tile roof with crest. 3 large side wall stacks with
quoins, double cornices and panelled tops. Tudor Gothic
Revival style.
Ground floor cornice, traceried corbel table. 3 storeys.
Curved asymmetrical front of 5 bays. Recessed off-centre
entrance bay has 2 ogee headed cross casements fronted by a
coped parapet with the inscription "Punch Hotel" in raised
lettering. Above, a 2-light mullioned window in a projecting
surround with a traceried ogee gable and finials. Below, 2
segment-arched entrances with traceried lintels. In the
centre, a semicircular bay window with 2 cross casements,
flanked by deeply recessed glazed double doors. On either
side, a canted 2-storey bay window with a 4-light cross
mullioned window on each floor, topped by an ogee traceried
balustrade. Between floors, a terracotta relief panel on the
line of the central balustrade. Above, on either side, an
elaborate shaped gable with linked pinnacles and a pair of
recessed elliptical-arched 2-light mullioned windows under a
common ogee head. To right, a square bay window and gable with
similar fenestration. All the gables have Punch head
medallions. To right again, a recessed blank bay with an
elliptical-arched pierced balustrade. Porch with similar
balustrade and segment-headed doorway with recessed glazed
double door.
Left return has a 2-storey lean-to projection enclosed by a
coped yard wall with a pair of gatepiers with ball finials. On
the first floor, the Hull Brewery Co trademark in relief. To
its right, a canted stair turret with 2 basket-arched
transomed windows on the first floor. To right again, a larger
cross mullioned window on each floor, and above them a
terracotta panel with the hotel's name. INTERIOR, refitted mid
C20, retains some original features.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire; York and The East
Riding: London: 1972-: 278).
Listing NGR: TA0959428725
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 278
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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