CARMELITE HOUSE

CARMELITE HOUSE, POSTERNGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197679
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
CARMELITE HOUSE
Statutory Address:
CARMELITE HOUSE, POSTERNGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197679
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:
CARMELITE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:
CARMELITE HOUSE, POSTERNGATE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CARMELITE HOUSE, POSTERNGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TA 09817 28619

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE POSTERNGATE 680-1/22/301 (North side) 13/10/52 Carmelite House (Formerly Listed as: POSTERNGATE Posterngate Alms Houses)

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Former Hull Trinity House almshouses, now offices. 1828, with mid C20 alterations. By Charles Mountain the Younger. Painted stucco, roof not visible. Plinth, and entablature with coped parapet. 2 storeys; 13-window range. The end bays are framed by giant Doric columns in antis, with metope and triglyph friezes. On the first floor, thirteen 12-pane sashes, the central one with moulded surround. Below, steps with low balustrades to central stucco doorcase with double fielded 8-panel doors, flanked on either side by 5 windows. All these openings have cornices on scroll brackets. Above the door, a block inscribed "Carmelite House", and similar plain blocks over the end windows. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 273).

Listing NGR: TA0981728619

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Legacy System number:
387738
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 273

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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