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Numbers 53 and 55 Spring Bank and Attached Railings

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.749 / 53°44'56"N

Longitude: -0.3499 / 0°20'59"W

OS Eastings: 508907

OS Northings: 429335

OS Grid: TA089293

Mapcode National: GBR GKM.PH

Mapcode Global: WHGFR.L1L8

Plus Code: 9C5XPMX2+J2

Entry Name: Numbers 53 and 55 Spring Bank and Attached Railings

Listing Date: 21 January 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1219347

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387801

ID on this website: 101219347

Location: Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU3

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: Sculcoates All Saints

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


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


TA 02 NE,
680-1/8/361

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
SPRING BANK (South West side),
Nos. 53 and 55 and attached railings

II

Two houses, now houses and shops, and attached railings. c1830, with late C20 alterations. MATERIALS: brick with slate roofs and single gable and single ridge stacks.

EXTERIOR: rusticated basement, moulded wood modillion eaves. Three storeys plus basements; four-window range of 12-pane sashes with keystone lintels. Above, four nine-pane sashes with similar lintels. Below, two moulded doorcases with steps and wrought-iron spearhead balustrades, and doors with three shaped fielded panels and overlights, the right one margin glazed. Alternating with the doors, a plain sash to left and a 12-pane sash to right, with moulded surrounds. All these openings have cornices on consoles. Basement has, to left, a plain sash and to right, a triple plain sash. Outside, wrought-iron spearhead area railings with gates.

HISTORY: 53 and 55 Spring Bank were part of Belgrave Terrace built about 1830. The children’s writer Mrs OF Walton [Amy Catherine Walton] (1849-1939, author of Christie’s Old Organ (1874), Little Dot (1973) and A Peep Behing the Scenes (1877) was born at 5 Belgrave Terrace which map evidence indicates was the present 55 Spring Bank. Walton was the daughter of the Red John Deck, vicar of St Stephen’s, Hull, and she was resident in Hull, latterly around the corner in Park Street, until her marriage in 1875. Her best-selling novels were evangelical in tone and were very popular Sunday School prizes.


Listing NGR: TA0890729335

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