Description

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TA0928NE
680-1/22/302

KINGSTON UPON HULL
POSTERNGATE (North side)
Former Department of Transport Marine Office

(Formerly listed as Department of Transport Marine Office)

GV II

Former Marine Office. 1868 and 1874, with mid and late C20
alterations and additions. By W Foale. Red brick with blue
brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 5 gable and 2
ridge stacks.
Gothic Revival style. Plinth, ground floor impost band,
first-floor sill band, brick eaves corbels, shouldered coped
gables with stacks or finials.
2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics; 2 blocks, one of 6
windows, the other of 4. Between the blocks, a courtyard
closed at the rear by a single-storey link building and
spanned at first floor level by a C20 glazed bridge.
First-floor windows are plain sashes with segmental heads and
a recessed impost band.
Larger left block has 2 sashes flanked by similar paired
sashes with central shafts, and beyond them, single sashes.
Above, 2 hipped dormers with 3 pointed lights. Below, 3
round-arched plain sashes flanked to left by a traceried
panelled door and to right by a C20 flush door, both with
overlights. Beyond, to left, another sash. Ground floor
openings have a linked hoodmould. Right return has 2 plain
sashes and above, 2 small round-arched windows. Below, a
tripartite sash.
Smaller right block has 2 sashes flanked by paired sashes with
shafts. Below, 2 round-arched glazing bar sashes flanked by
single traceried panelled doors with cusped overlights. Ground
floor openings have linked hoodmould. Left return has a
pointed recess on the first floor with a tripartite
segment-headed sash and above, a small roundel. Below, a
tripartite sash. Link building has central door and overlight,
flanked by single windows.
Rear elevation, to Trinity House Yard, has to left 2 sashes
flanked by paired sashes and below, a door to left and 3
windows to right. Right block 7 plain sashes and below, a
central door with cusped overlight, flanked by 2 plain sashes.

Listing NGR: TA0978728619

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584639

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House