Former Warehouses on Corner of Princes Dock Street and Posterngate
FORMER WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCES DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297027
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Warehouses on Corner of Princes Dock Street and Posterngate
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCES DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297027
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Former Warehouses on Corner of Princes Dock Street and Posterngate
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCES DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET
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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 WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCES DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE, PRINCE'S DOCK 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:
- TA 09742 28597
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
680-1/22/312 PRINCE'S DOCK STREET 05-FEB-09 FORMER WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCE' S DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE (Formerly listed as: PRINCE'S DOCK STREET THE WATERFRONT HOTEL AND CLUB) (Formerly listed as: PRINCE'S DOCK STREET WAREHOUSE ON CORNER OF PRINCE'S DOCK S TREET AND POSTERNGATE)
II Warehouses, now hotel and club. Front block dated 1831, with late C20 alterations. Rear block c1840. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Rendered plinth. 4 storeys plus basement; 3x5 windows. Segment headed windows, those to basement and fourth floor smaller, all with late C20 glazing and many of them barred. Gable fronting Prince's Dock Street has a central segment-headed recess from basement to third floor, with with wooden transoms and late C20 glazing replacing loft doors. On the third floor, a wrought-iron crane on cast-iron brackets. At basement level, a window to left and a late C20 door to right. On the upper floors, a single window on each side. On the fourth floor, 3 windows. In the gable, a datestone with the inscription "J P 1831" in foliated script. Left return, to Posterngate, 6 bays, has a loft door to each floor in the 2nd bay, with low doorway to basement. To left, single window on each floor, the basement blank. To right, 4 windows to upper floors and to basement a segment-headed doorway flanked by single window to left and 2 to right. Rear block has a pedimented gable fronting Posterngate with plinth, rendered basement and rusticated quoins. 4 storeys plus basement and attics; 5-window range. In the centre, a loft door to each of the upper floors, with flat heads to the first and fourth floors and segment heads to the remainder. On the fourth flooor, a wrought-iron crane. The basement has a low segment-headed doorway. On the upper floors, 2 windows on each side. In the pediment, a semicircular window. Rear return angle has regular C20 fenestration and corner entrance. Rear gable, fronting Dagger Lane, has plinth and pediment with brick dentillation, topped with a truncated pyramid finial. This may represent a sugar loaf. 5 storeys plus attics; 5-window range. Central bay has on the upper floors a segment-arched loft door, now glazed and with a transom. On either side, on the upper floors, 2 segment-headed glazing bar sashes. To left of the fourth floor opening, a wrought-iron crane. In the pediment, a small round window. Rendered ground floor has a central segment-headed blocked door to the cellars, and to right, a segment-headed doorway. INTERIOR remodelled but retaining round cast-iron columns to floor joists. In the rear block, a basement with shallow segmental brick vaults.
Listing NGR: TA0972628595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387749
- 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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