Paragon Arcade
PARAGON ARCADE, 47 49 53 AND 55, PARAGON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291960
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- PARAGON ARCADE, 47 49 53 AND 55, PARAGON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291960
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Paragon Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARAGON ARCADE, 47 49 53 AND 55, PARAGON STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PARAGON ARCADE, 52 AND 53, CARR LANE
- Statutory Address 3:
- PARAGON ARCADE, PARAGON STREET
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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:
- PARAGON ARCADE, 47 49 53 AND 55, PARAGON STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PARAGON ARCADE, 52 AND 53, CARR LANE
- Statutory Address:
- PARAGON ARCADE, PARAGON 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:
- TA0944528761
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0928NW PARAGON STREET
680-1/21/269 (South side)
Paragon Arcade
II
Includes: Nos.52 AND 53 CARR LANE.
Includes: Nos.47, 49, 53 AND 55 PARAGON STREET.
Shopping arcade. 1891, by A Gelder of Hull, with mid and late
C20 alterations. Brick with moulded brick, granite and ashlar
dressings and slate and glazed roofs. 3 gable and single ridge
coped brick stacks. Gothic Revival style. string courses,
dentillated brick eaves, bays defined by brick pilaster strips
with panelled ashlar tops.
Paragon Street front, 3 storeys; 4 bays. Off-centre moulded
archway with hoodmould, ornamented spandrels and shaft
imposts. To left, on the first floor, 2 canted stone oriel
windows with round-arched blind balustrades. To right, a
single similar window. Above, a band between floors inscribed
"The Paragon Arcade" in raised lettering. Above again, a
tripartite plain sash with polychrome lancet head set in a
coped gable above the archway. To left, 2 triple round-headed
lancets with polychrome heads and linked hoodmoulds. To right,
a similar window. On the ground floor, to left, 2 late C20
shop fronts and to right, a similar shop front.
Symmetrical Carr Lane front, 3 storeys; 3 bays. Similar design
and detailing to Paragon Street front. The inscribed band
reads "Paragon Arcade". To left, C19 wooden shop front with
single-pane window to left and recessed glazed door to right,
with continuous toplight with round arches. This shop front is
returned under the archway with 2 single-pane windows. To
right, a late C20 shop front.
INTERIOR has at each end a concrete pointed barrel vault with
4 pointed-arched recesses on each side. In the centre, a
glazed roof with delicate traceried cast-iron pointed-arched
ribs. At each end a polychrome gable with a quatrefoil window
in a moulded circular surround. On either side, a polychrome
banded upper storey with 7 pointed-arched wooden cross
casements with traceried heads. Moulded sill band and linked
hoodmoulds. Below, on either side, 9 shop fronts separated by
gabled glazed brick pilasters and with traceried toplights and
billeted cornices. 6 shop fronts at the Paragon Street end
have reglazed fanlights and C20 fascias.
Listing NGR: TA0944528761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387695
- 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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