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KINGSTON UPON HULL TA02NE HESSLE ROAD
680-1/8/173 (South East side)
Yorkshire Bank at corner of Eton
Street II Bank. Dated 1901. By JR Whitaker of Leeds for the Yorkshire
Penny Bank. Brick with Westmorland slate roof with terracotta
dressings and faience tile ground floor. French Renaissance
Revival style. Plinth, ground floor cornice, string courses,
coped gables. 3 storeys plus attics; 4x4 windows. Corner site
with angled corner. First and second floor windows are plain
sashes.
Corner entrance bay has a 2-light window with stone mullion.
Above, a smaller 3-light window flanked by octagonal pilasters
with ball finials. Below the window, a cartouche. Above again,
a steep pitched gabled dormer with a single light shouldered
window flanked by coats of arms and with a cartouche below.
Above and behind, a steep pitched pyramidal roof topped with a
wrought-iron crest. Below, a segment-arched doorway flanked by
octagonal piers topped with finials in the form of heraldic
beasts holding shields. Fielded panelled double door with
segment-headed mullioned overlight, and above it, a relief
panel with a dated scroll.
Main front, to Hessle Road, has two pairs of shouldered
sashes. Above, 2 groups of 3 sashes divided and flanked by
octagonal pilasters with ball finials, under a ramped coped
parapet with 2 segmental pediments, each containing an
inscribed tablet. Below the second floor windows, a band of
relief decoration. Below, 2 segment-headed 3-light cross
casements, under a cornice with 3 heraldic beasts holding
shields. Left return front, to Eton Street, is of similar
design with simplified ornament. To its left, a parapeted
2-storey range with a pair of sashes, and below, to left, a
door.
Listing NGR: TA0797327745
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