Monument Buildings
MONUMENT BUILDINGS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297028
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Monument Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- MONUMENT BUILDINGS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297028
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Monument Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONUMENT BUILDINGS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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:
- MONUMENT BUILDINGS, QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
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:
- TA0965528727
Details
KINGSTON UPON HULL
TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
680-1/22/319 (South side)
Monument Buildings
GV II
Offices, now shops. 1902-08. By the North Eastern Railway
Architects Dept. Ashlar with granite and ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped slate roof with a coped gable stack.
Jacobean Revival style.
Ground floor cornice, dentillated main cornice, coped parapet
with pedestals topped with urns. Single coped gable. Windows
are stone mullioned and transomed casements. Those to the
first floor have arched transoms, those to the second floor
have round-headed lights.
3 storeys plus attics; 6 window range. Symmetrical 5 window
section, to right, has a central square bay window with a
3-light window on each floor and a cartouche between the
floors. Above, a shaped gable containing a cartouche and
topped with a finial. On either side, a plain square bay
window with a 3-light window on each floor. Beyond, a larger
projecting bay with canted 2-storey bay window with a
cartouche between floors. Above, a gable containing a round
window with 2 keystones and drapery, fronted by a canted
balustrade. The gable is topped with a stilted segmental
pediment.
To left, a smaller square bay window with a 2-light window on
each floor. Ground floor has a central granite doorcase with
rusticated Ionic pilasters and broken segmental pediment
containing a cartouche with datestone. Moulded round-arched
doorway with console keystone and fanlight in the form of a
Diocletian window. To left, 3 segment-headed shop front
openings with keystones, separated by granite pilasters. To
right, 2 similar openings.
Left return has at the angle a 3-storey turret topped with a
spire and lead finial. 3-light window on each of the upper
floors and a round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts on
the ground floor. To left, a 3-light window on the upper
floors, the first floor one blocked, and on the ground floor a
round-arched opening with leaded fanlight.
Listing NGR: TA0965528727
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387755
- 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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