PARAGON ARCADE

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:: PARAGON ARCADE, 47 49 53 AND 55, PARAGON STREET

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 387695
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.