BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE

BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297036
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE
Statutory Address:: BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297036
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BEVERLEY ROAD SWIMMING CENTRE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL

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 08963 30475

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

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KINGSTON UPON HULL BEVERLEY ROAD (East side) Beverley Road Swimming Centre 04/07/90

II

Swimming baths. 1903-05. Designed by Joseph H Hirst, City Architect.

MATERIALS: Red brick with ashlar dressings and copper and slate roofs with two coped ridge stacks. Chamfered ashlar plinth, sill bands and moulded cornice.

EXTERIOR: Main front has a central square tower, three stages, topped with an octagonal cupola with angle scroll brackets and a copper dome with iron weather vane. On the first floor a tall canted bay window with ashlar surround and arched hood. Above it a small circular window under a deep eaves cornice which arches over the window. Below, steps to the main doorway, with Ionic columns supporting an open pediment, and panelled double doors. To the right, a gabled block, two storeys, with ashlar flanking buttresses and gable topped with a pediment. Seven small windows with short Ionic pilasters between them, and above, a Venetian window. Beyond, on either side, a slightly recessed bay topped with a segmental pediment, with steps to round-arched ashlar doorway with panelled doors and overlight. To the left, a block, two storeys plus attics; five-window range. Central shallow canted bay window flanked by single wider bay windows, and beyond, single narrow windows. Above again, two pedimented dormers with scroll brackets. Below, to left, an entrance with glazed double doors. To its right, a narrow bay window, then a wider bay window and finally a narrow window. At the left corner, a single bay, two storeys, topped with an octagonal cupola with copper dome. Left return, to Epworth Street, has two facing gables with segmental pediments, and three doorways, all with prominent ashlar surrounds with segmental hoods on brackets. Various windows, also with ashlar surrounds. At the rear, a tall panelled chimney stack, formerly with a decorative cap. INTERIOR has sumptuous entrance hall and foyer with a bronze portrait plaque of John Shaw, Chairman of the Baths Committee by E. Caldwell Spruce, 1905. There is extremely fine quality Art Nouveau tiling, by the Campbell Tile Company, which extends to the corridors and baths. Individual bath cubicles retain all their tiling and original baths. Two swimming baths also survive, with their original roofs, balconies and tiling.

Listing NGR: TA0896330475

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Neave, David, Neave, Susan, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Hull, (2010), 166

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.