Marina Recreation Centre
MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL ROAD, HULL
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Overview
- 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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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:
- 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
TA 0928 SW
680-1/24/96
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
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387511
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Neave, David, Neave, Susan, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Hull, (2010), 112-113
Credland, A, The Wilson Line, (200)
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.
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