HULL TRINITY HOUSE

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KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE TRINITY HOUSE LANE 680-1/22/377 (North West side) 13/10/52 Hull Trinity House (Formerly Listed as: TRINITY HOUSE LANE (West side) Trinity House and Offices of Trinity House) (Formerly Listed as: TRINITY HOUSE LANE (West side) No.12)

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Trinity house and adjoining offices and houses. Main block 1753; Guild House c1775, by Joseph Page; adjoining houses late C18 and early C19, with late C19 and C20 alterations; adjoining offices 1844. Brick, the main block and adjoining houses with stucco fronts and ashlar dressings, the offices ashlar. Hipped and gabled slate roofs. Main block, 2 storeys; 8x7 windows. Polygonal plan with 2 internal courtyards. Plinth, quoins, moulded cornice, coped parapet and 3 large coped ridge stacks. Windows are 12-pane sashes with moulded surrounds and bracketed sills, those to the ground floor with cornices. Projecting centre with 2 windows under a 3-bay pediment with elaborate coat of arms and 2 reclining allegorical figures by Jeremiah Hargrave. Below, central portal with steps and 2 engaged Doric columns carrying entablature and segmental pediment. Moulded stone doorcase with keystone, panelled recess and fielded 6-panel door. On either side, 2 windows on each floor. Left return, to Posterngate, has 7 windows on each floor. Rear elevation, to south courtyard, has a central glazing bar window with a round-arched moulded and shouldered surround, flanked by two 12-pane sashes. Below, central portal with 2 Doric columns and cornice and fielded 6-panel door in plain surround. To its left, a blank, and to right, two 12-pane sashes. In the angle to left, a curved single-storey corridor with sill band and cornice, and a tripartite glazing bar sash with cornice and brackets. South range has five 12-pane sashes and below, 4 similar windows with a C20 glazed door to right. North range has six 12-pane sashes on each floor. All these windows have painted brick flat flat arches. Guild House, forming north range and containing Board Room and Council Chamber, has a 2-storey projecting centre with quoins, flanked by single bays. Plinth, overall cornice and blocking, single gable stack. In the centre, 2 Venetian windows with bracketed sill and plain sashes and below, 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes. In the centre, between floors, a coat of arms in relief. 3-storey side bays have plain sashes and above, smaller 3-light sashes, all with keystone lintels. Below, to left, a 12-pane sash and to right a panelled door with fanlight, both with round-arched surrounds with imposts and keystones. Stucco rear elevation has first-floor band, string course and cornice, and ground floor divided by pilasters. Large central round-headed glazing bar sash flanked by similar smaller windows, and below, five 15-pane sashes, the 3 to right with margin glazed top lights. On either side, square 2 storeys windowless projections. Smaller north courtyard has to east a 2-storey block, 4 windows, containing the General Office. Single octagonal side wall stack. Four large 9-pane sashes and below, four larger 12-pane sashes, all with brick flat arches. West range has three 12-pane sashes and below, a 6-panel door to left and 3 similar sashes to right. North range has a gable stack. To left, a higher block with a blank to left and two 6-pane sashes to right. To right. a lower block with two 3-light windows. Below, a blank to left, then 2 tripartite sashes, then 2 similar sashes. All these windows have brick flat arches. 2-storey north range containing the reading room has a hipped roof with 2 octagonal rear wall stacks and a flat topped octagonal lantern. Four 12-pane sashes and below, 2 similar sashes flanked by single panelled doors. All these windows have brick flat arches. In the centre, an inscribed shield removed from the Trinity House almshouses. Adjoining houses, now workshops, fronting Posterngate, have steep pitched slate roofs with 3 gable and 2 ridge stacks. Low coped parapet. 3 storeys plus garrets; 8-window range of plain sashes and above, eight 6-pane sashes. Below, 2 plain sashes flanked by a handed pair of late C19 wooden shop fronts with late C20 alterations. Both have pilasters and shaped brackets to fascia cornices. Left opening has a pair of large double doors flanked to right by a door and overlight. Right shop front has a central single-pane window with overlight, flanked by double doors with fanlights. Beyond, to left, an early C19 house, 2 storeys; 3-window range. Painted stucco front with coped parapet. 3 plain sashes and below, a large double doorway with glazing bar overlight, and to its right a door with overlight, and above it, a window. Office, to right of main block, 2 storeys; 3-window range. Plinth, dentillated moulded cornice with console brackets, gable stack with 4 octagonal flues. 3 stone mullioned cross casements with moulded surrounds and below, stone doorcase with cornice on consoles and recessed panelled half-glazed double door with eared surround. On either side, a cross casement with eared surround. INTERIOR: main block has stone cantilever winder staircase and landing with wrought-iron balustrade and ramped wooden handrail, by John Waugh. First floor Court Room has enriched dentillated cornice and enriched coved ceiling. Walls have raised plaster panels and to east, 2 round-arched recesses with Venetian windows with Ionic columns and enriched heads. To west, an apsidal recess with shell ceiling. South end has an inlaid marble Classical fireplace flanked by moulded doorcases with enriched friezes and cornices on scroll brackets, by J Hargrave. North end has a similar central doorcase. Council Chamber has moulded plaster wall panels and cornice and enriched ceiling with oval panel. To west, 3 round-arched windows with panelled recesses. Adjoining Museum Room, C19, has dentillated cornice and cross beam ceiling with strapwork. C19 oval Reading Room has elaborate cornice and frieze and enriched ceiling with coved oval dome and lantern, in debased Classical style. 4 corniced doorcases with chain ornament and curved margin stile doors. Marble fireplace. Chart Room has coved ceiling with margin glazed skylight, and fitted glass cases, cupboards and drawers. Canoe Room, below Board Room, has moulded cornice and cross beam ceiling, and late C19 Tudor style stone fireplace. C20 elliptical arch to adjoining ante room with a large segment-headed recess and 3 doorcases converted to showcases. Adjoining hallway, C19, has imitation marble panelling and enriched cornice. Stairwell in similar style has dentillated cornice and margin-glazed skylight. Oak winder stair with turned lotus-leaf balusters. Hull Trinity House was founded as a religious guild in 1369, and became a guild solely concerned with seamen and an authority in maritime affairs in 1456. Trinity House has occupied its present site continuously since c1457. No.12 was listed on 16.06.71 (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 272-273; Hall I & E: Georgian Hull: York: 1978-1979: PASSIM; Harvey A S: The Trinity House of Kingston Upon Hull: Hull: 1950-).

Listing NGR: TA 09880 28623

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Sources

Books and journals
Hall, I, E , , A New Picture of Georgian Hull, (1978)
Harvey, A S, The Trinity House of Kingston Upon Hull, (1950)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 272 to 273

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