Northumberland Almshouses
NORTHUMBERLAND ALMSHOUSES, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291978
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Northumberland Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHUMBERLAND ALMSHOUSES, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1291978
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Northumberland Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHUMBERLAND ALMSHOUSES, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
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:
- NORTHUMBERLAND ALMSHOUSES, NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
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 09604 30314
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0930 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE 680-1/15/263 (North side) 22/03/88 Northumberland Almshouses (Formerly Listed as: NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE The Almshouses)
II
Almshouses. 1884-87. By Smith & Brodrick. For the Hull Charity Trustees, (an amalgamation of 4 long-established charities), relocated on a new site. Red brick, roughcast and sham timber-framing, with ashlar dressings and renewed plain tile roofs, gabled and hipped. Brick ridge stacks. Glazing bar casement windows, mostly original. Domestic Tudor Revival style. The plan is conventional, with ranges of dwellings, mostly 2 storeys, around a grassed quadrangle. In the centre of the south side, the gatehouse and entrance tower, and opposite, the chapel. Single storey service ranges run northwards from the rear corners. The gatehouse has a Tudor arched carriage entrance with wrought-iron gates and a brick vaulted passage. Above, a stone oriel window. Behind this, a square clock tower with parapet. Steep pitched swept roof carried on a round-arched wooden arcade. On the right, a canted stair tower with a similar roof. Flanking the gatehouse to east and west, regular ranges of gabled dwellings, 8 bays. At each end of the range, an angled corner gable flanked by hexagonal turrets with swept roofs. Returns have nearly symmetrical ranges with 6 gables. Inside the quadrangle, the chapel on the north side has nave and chancel under a continuous roof with a bellcote, vestry and west porch. Perpendicular style windows. 3-light east window, 2 single light south windows. Nave has four 2-light windows to south, and 3 to north. West porch has a doorway with a window over it. INTERIOR has arch-braced roofs with wall shafts, and chancel arch with responds. Tiled reredos and stained-glass east window. Double arch on north side. Nave has 2 arched doorways and traceried ashlar pulpit. East of the chapel, a large gabled and hipped corner block, 2 and 3 storeys, 5 bays, on a grander scale than the other dwellings. Angled north-east corner and timber framed rear elevation. West of the chapel, a dwelling range, 4 bays, with a double hipped projecting centre. East and west sides of the quadrangle, 7 bays, are symmetrical, with a gabled central projection flanked by hipped wings. On the south side, the gatehouse is flanked by double gabled blocks, then a recessed bay, then a hipped block. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire East Riding: London: 1961-: 284).
Listing NGR: TA0960430314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 284
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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