MARINA RECREATION CENTRE

MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL ROAD, HULL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297062
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: MARINA RECREATION CENTRE
Statutory Address:: MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL ROAD, HULL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1297062
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: MARINA RECREATION CENTRE
Statutory Address 1:: MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL ROAD, HULL

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL 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 09418 28207

Details

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

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COMMERCIAL STREET (East side) Marina Recreation Centre

(Formerly listed as Marina Recreation Centre, COMMERCIAL ROAD) 21.1.94

II

Shipping line offices, now recreation centre. 1872 by William Reeves of Hull, converted c1980.

MATERIALS: red brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and hipped and gabled slate roof with rounded corner, topped with a weather vane in the form of a Wilson Line Steamer.

EXTERIOR: stepped plinth, modillion wooden eaves. Recessed panels with dentilated heads, divided by pilasters. two storeys; two x eight windows, with a rounded corner, five windows. Rounded corner has a central entrance bay with a traceried round-arched two-light window with shafts. Above it, a recessed panel containing a clock. This clock was constructed by Wm Potts of Leeds in 1899; it has a pin wheel escapement and compensating pendulum and was restored by D V Stipetic. Below, a round arched doorway with granite columns and steps with brass handrails. Late C20 glazed double doors with fanlight. On either side, two round-arched plain sashes with pilasters. Below, two windows on either side with similar pilasters and flat heads, the far right window now blocked. Left return, to Commercial Road has two round-headed windows above and two flat-headed windows below. Right return, to Kingston Street, has eight tall round-arched margin glazed two-light windows to the former general office.

INTERIOR: has moulded cornice with double modillions, and coved ceiling. Internal clock has twin dials driven from a single weight driven movement and a dead beat escapement, constructed by Thomas Reynoldson of Hull c1872 and restored by D V Stipetic c1980. The wind vane is linked internally to a compass dial which indicates the wind direction was constructed by Thomas Reynoldson of Hull c1872 and restored by D V Stipetic c1980. It is the only such wind vane and direction compass still surviving in Hull.

HISTORY: built as the head offices for Thomas Wilson, Sons & Co., the largest private steamship company in the world in the late C19. Commencing a steamship service from Norway and Sweden by 1843 the company were dominating the transportation of migrants from Scandinavia, Germany and Russia through Hull on route for America by the late 1850s. Thomas Wilson & Sons virtually held the monopoly for emigrant traffic from Scandinavia up to 1914. It is estimated that 2.2 million migrants passed through Hull in the years 1836-1914, the majority travelling on Wilson Line ships.

Listing NGR: TA0948828472

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 387511
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Credland, A, The Wilson Line, (200)
Neave, David, Neave, Susan, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Hull, (2010), 112-113
Websites
N.J Evans 1999 Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914, accessed . from http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=28&

Legal

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