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Former Warehouses on Corner of Princes Dock Street and Posterngate

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

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7422 / 53°44'31"N

Longitude: -0.3375 / 0°20'15"W

OS Eastings: 509742

OS Northings: 428598

OS Grid: TA097285

Mapcode National: GBR GNP.BX

Mapcode Global: WHGFR.S6GH

Plus Code: 9C5XPMR6+VX

Entry Name: Former Warehouses on Corner of Princes Dock Street and Posterngate

Listing Date: 12 November 1973

Last Amended: 5 February 2009

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1297027

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387749

ID on this website: 101297027

Location: Lisle Court, 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 Most Holy and Undivided Trinity

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description


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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