Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE
680-1/22/319 (South side)
Monument Buildings

GV II

Offices, now shops. 1902-08. By the North Eastern Railway
Architects Dept. Ashlar with granite and ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped slate roof with a coped gable stack.
Jacobean Revival style.
Ground floor cornice, dentillated main cornice, coped parapet
with pedestals topped with urns. Single coped gable. Windows
are stone mullioned and transomed casements. Those to the
first floor have arched transoms, those to the second floor
have round-headed lights.
3 storeys plus attics; 6 window range. Symmetrical 5 window
section, to right, has a central square bay window with a
3-light window on each floor and a cartouche between the
floors. Above, a shaped gable containing a cartouche and
topped with a finial. On either side, a plain square bay
window with a 3-light window on each floor. Beyond, a larger
projecting bay with canted 2-storey bay window with a
cartouche between floors. Above, a gable containing a round
window with 2 keystones and drapery, fronted by a canted
balustrade. The gable is topped with a stilted segmental
pediment.
To left, a smaller square bay window with a 2-light window on
each floor. Ground floor has a central granite doorcase with
rusticated Ionic pilasters and broken segmental pediment
containing a cartouche with datestone. Moulded round-arched
doorway with console keystone and fanlight in the form of a
Diocletian window. To left, 3 segment-headed shop front
openings with keystones, separated by granite pilasters. To
right, 2 similar openings.
Left return has at the angle a 3-storey turret topped with a
spire and lead finial. 3-light window on each of the upper
floors and a round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts on
the ground floor. To left, a 3-light window on the upper
floors, the first floor one blocked, and on the ground floor a
round-arched opening with leaded fanlight.

Listing NGR: TA0965528727

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26584643

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (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)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)