Description

GOOLE AIRE STREET SE 7423 (east side)

14/48 Nos 3 to 9 (odd) (Royal Hotel)

GV II Houses and shops, now public house. Includes section fronting onto Adam Street. 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of Doncaster for Aire and Calder Navigation, with later C19 shop fronts and C20 alterations. Brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed to Nos 5, 7, 9, stuccoed to No 3 and Adam Street frontage. Sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 3-storey, 5-bay section to Aire Street, bay 6 to corner with Adam Street and bay 7 facing Adam Street; adjoining low 2-storey section to Adam Street with 2 first- floor windows. Aire Street frontage: 4-bay section to left has bays 2-4 breaking forward. Main entrance to third bay has original ashlar Doric doorcase with attached columns carrying entablature with modillioned cornice and hood. Late C19 shop fronts to either side with C20 infilling incorporating casements and door to left (No 9), both shop fronts in wood surrounds with ornate consoles bearing carved foliate and grapevine ornament, plain friezes with moulded cornices and hoods. First floor: left bay has first-floor sill band and original 12-pane sash beneath rubbed-brick cambered arch. Advanced 3-bay section to right has later C19 12-pane sashes in original openings above recessed aprons with ribbed pilasters carrying sills, the central window in an eared architrave..and the flanking windows beneath rubbed-brick cambered arches. Second floor: first bay has original 6-pane sash with sill beneath cambered arch; 3 bays to right have later C19 6-pane sashes with sills, the central window in an eared architrave. 3-bay corner section to right: plinth, full-width shop front with corner entrance containing recessed door beneath plain overlight, flanked by inserted C20 shop windows, with further blocked window or former entrance to right, in wood surround with ornate consoles bearing carved acanthus and grapevine ornament, plain frieze, bracketed cornice and hood. First-floor sill band. First-floor 12-pane sash to corner, flanked by narrower 12-pane sash to right, and blocked window to left, all in eared and shouldered architraves. Short 12-pane second-floor sash to corner flanked by blocked windows, all with sills and similar architraves to first floor. Moulded corniced wooden gutter throughout, with rendered blocking course to corner section and the 3 advanced bays to left. Round hipped roof. Shortened stack straddling ridge with ashlar band. Lower section adjoining to right: wide C19 shop front to left with central inserted C20 windows flanked by entrances with panelled doors in wooden surrounds with carved consoles bearing grapevine and shell ornament, plain frieze, moulded cornice and hood. 2-bay section to right, flanked by narrow pilaster strips, has pair of short ground-floor windows with 4-pane sash to left, and C20 2-light casement to right, in original surrounds with sills and eared and shouldered architraves. Pair of later C19 4-pane first-floor sashes with sills and similar architraves to ground floor. Moulded cornice, coped parapet. Corniced ridge stack and roof stack. Interior. Aire Street range has moulded cornice and round-headed openings with archivolts to entrance hall, open-well staircase to rear with wreathed handrail and plain balusters; not fully investigated. Part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks. Aire Street was the main commercial street. Porteous J D, Canal Ports, 1976.

Listing NGR: SE7470423353

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