Social Services Adult Education Centre and Attached Railings
SOCIAL SERVICES ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SOMERSET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297013
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Social Services Adult Education Centre and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SOCIAL SERVICES ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SOMERSET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297013
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Social Services Adult Education Centre and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCIAL SERVICES ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SOMERSET STREET
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:
- SOCIAL SERVICES ADULT EDUCATION CENTRE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, SOMERSET 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:
- TA0737327917
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA02NE SOMERSET STREET
680-1/8/351 (North East side)
Social Services Adult Education
Centre and attached railings
II
Former board school, now social services and adult education
centre, and attached railings. 1881. By W Freeman, with late
C20 alterations. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar
dressings and slate roofs with coped gables, gabled
ventilators, and 3 square louvred bell turrets with pyramidal
roofs. Gothic Revival style. Single storey; 19-window range.
Windows have stone mullions and transoms.
Near symmetrical front has a central gable with a graduated
window with central triple lancet flanked by single lancets,
with blank heads and hoodmoulds.
To right, 2 flat-headed cross casements, then a projecting
porch topped with a shouldered gabled single bell turret.
Pointed arched doorway with inscribed tympnum and hoodmould,
with a pair of doors. To right again, a gabled through-eaves
dormer with a traceried triple lancet and hoodmould, flanked
by single buttresses and beyond, single cross casements.
Above, two 2-light box dormers with glazed roofs. To right
again, a projecting gable with a graduated triple window.
To left, a gabled through eaves dormer with plate traceried
triple lancet, flanked by single buttresss and beyond, single
cross casements. To left again, a gabled porch with
pointed-arched door and traceried and inscribed tympanum,
flanked by 2 cross casements. Left gable has 2 double lancets
and a round window above them, under a common hoodmould.
Above, 4 gablet ventilators. Left return has to left a
projecting gable with 2 lancets, and to right a buttressed
range with 2 through-eaves dormers with 3-light cross
casements, flanked by single cross casements.
Outside, railings with fleur-de-lys heads, chamfered brick
plinth and brick piers with pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: TA0737327917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387791
- 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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