Former Department of Transport Marine Office
FORMER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT MARINE OFFICE, POSTERNGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297024
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Department of Transport Marine Office
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT MARINE OFFICE, POSTERNGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297024
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Department of Transport Marine Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT MARINE OFFICE, POSTERNGATE
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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:
- FORMER DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT MARINE OFFICE, POSTERNGATE
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:
- TA0978728619
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/03/2013
TA0928NE
680-1/22/302
KINGSTON UPON HULL
POSTERNGATE (North side)
Former Department of Transport Marine Office
(Formerly listed as Department of Transport Marine Office)
GV II
Former Marine Office. 1868 and 1874, with mid and late C20
alterations and additions. By W Foale. Red brick with blue
brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 5 gable and 2
ridge stacks.
Gothic Revival style. Plinth, ground floor impost band,
first-floor sill band, brick eaves corbels, shouldered coped
gables with stacks or finials.
2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics; 2 blocks, one of 6
windows, the other of 4. Between the blocks, a courtyard
closed at the rear by a single-storey link building and
spanned at first floor level by a C20 glazed bridge.
First-floor windows are plain sashes with segmental heads and
a recessed impost band.
Larger left block has 2 sashes flanked by similar paired
sashes with central shafts, and beyond them, single sashes.
Above, 2 hipped dormers with 3 pointed lights. Below, 3
round-arched plain sashes flanked to left by a traceried
panelled door and to right by a C20 flush door, both with
overlights. Beyond, to left, another sash. Ground floor
openings have a linked hoodmould. Right return has 2 plain
sashes and above, 2 small round-arched windows. Below, a
tripartite sash.
Smaller right block has 2 sashes flanked by paired sashes with
shafts. Below, 2 round-arched glazing bar sashes flanked by
single traceried panelled doors with cusped overlights. Ground
floor openings have linked hoodmould. Left return has a
pointed recess on the first floor with a tripartite
segment-headed sash and above, a small roundel. Below, a
tripartite sash. Link building has central door and overlight,
flanked by single windows.
Rear elevation, to Trinity House Yard, has to left 2 sashes
flanked by paired sashes and below, a door to left and 3
windows to right. Right block 7 plain sashes and below, a
central door with cusped overlight, flanked by 2 plain sashes.
Listing NGR: TA0978728619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387739
- 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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