CARMELITE HOUSE
CARMELITE HOUSE, POSTERNGATE
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Overview
- 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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- 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.
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.
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)
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387738
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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