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No. 161, HIGH STREET

A Grade II Listed Building in Kingston upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7436 / 53°44'37"N

Longitude: -0.3308 / 0°19'50"W

OS Eastings: 510180

OS Northings: 428764

OS Grid: TA101287

Mapcode National: GBR GPP.RF

Mapcode Global: WHGFR.W5MD

Plus Code: 9C5XPMV9+CM

Entry Name: No. 161, HIGH STREET

Listing Date: 21 January 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209756

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387609

ID on this website: 101209756

Location: Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU1

County: City of Kingston upon Hull

Electoral Ward/Division: Myton

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kingston upon Hull

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Riding of Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Hull (Lowgate) St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


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


TA 1028 NW,
680-1/23/191

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
HIGH STREET (West side),
No. 161

GV

II

Office building. Built by 1898, Phoenix Chambers, 161 High Street,
was designed by B. S. Jacobs of Hull. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled
and hipped slate roof with two gable and single ridge stacks,
all coped. Ashlar plinth with channelled rustication,
ground-floor lintel and sill bands, frieze with relief panels
and swags, dentillated eaves. Two storeys plus attics; 4x6
windows. Windows are mainly plain sashes. First-floor windows
have cornices. High Street front has four windows and above, a
coped parapet with two dormers with pilasters and shouldered
pediments, each with a 3-light wooden cross casement. Below,
an off-centre flat-headed doorway with steps and a segmental
pediment, flanked to left by two windows and to right by a
single window. Angled corner, to right, has three windows on the
lower floors. Attic has a large canted dormer with central
pediment containing a coat of arms and three wooden cross
casements. Right return, to Chapel Lane, has six windows on the
lower floors. Attic has two hipped dormers with ogee lead roofs
and single-light windows.


Listing NGR: TA1018028764

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