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KINGSTON UPON HULL

680-1/22/312 PRINCE'S DOCK STREET 05-FEB-09 FORMER WAREHOUSES ON CORNER OF PRINCE' S DOCK STREET AND POSTERNGATE (Formerly listed as: PRINCE'S DOCK STREET THE WATERFRONT HOTEL AND CLUB) (Formerly listed as: PRINCE'S DOCK STREET WAREHOUSE ON CORNER OF PRINCE'S DOCK S TREET AND POSTERNGATE)

II Warehouses, now hotel and club. Front block dated 1831, with late C20 alterations. Rear block c1840. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Rendered plinth. 4 storeys plus basement; 3x5 windows. Segment headed windows, those to basement and fourth floor smaller, all with late C20 glazing and many of them barred. Gable fronting Prince's Dock Street has a central segment-headed recess from basement to third floor, with with wooden transoms and late C20 glazing replacing loft doors. On the third floor, a wrought-iron crane on cast-iron brackets. At basement level, a window to left and a late C20 door to right. On the upper floors, a single window on each side. On the fourth floor, 3 windows. In the gable, a datestone with the inscription "J P 1831" in foliated script. Left return, to Posterngate, 6 bays, has a loft door to each floor in the 2nd bay, with low doorway to basement. To left, single window on each floor, the basement blank. To right, 4 windows to upper floors and to basement a segment-headed doorway flanked by single window to left and 2 to right. Rear block has a pedimented gable fronting Posterngate with plinth, rendered basement and rusticated quoins. 4 storeys plus basement and attics; 5-window range. In the centre, a loft door to each of the upper floors, with flat heads to the first and fourth floors and segment heads to the remainder. On the fourth flooor, a wrought-iron crane. The basement has a low segment-headed doorway. On the upper floors, 2 windows on each side. In the pediment, a semicircular window. Rear return angle has regular C20 fenestration and corner entrance. Rear gable, fronting Dagger Lane, has plinth and pediment with brick dentillation, topped with a truncated pyramid finial. This may represent a sugar loaf. 5 storeys plus attics; 5-window range. Central bay has on the upper floors a segment-arched loft door, now glazed and with a transom. On either side, on the upper floors, 2 segment-headed glazing bar sashes. To left of the fourth floor opening, a wrought-iron crane. In the pediment, a small round window. Rendered ground floor has a central segment-headed blocked door to the cellars, and to right, a segment-headed doorway. INTERIOR remodelled but retaining round cast-iron columns to floor joists. In the rear block, a basement with shallow segmental brick vaults.

Listing NGR: TA0972628595

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