Former Constitutional Club

NZ 5132 11/136

HARTLEPOOL, WHITBY STREET (west side), Nos. 14 and 16 (Former Constitutional Club)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 14 and 16 (Constitutional Club))

8.6.84

II

Club; 1906; brick with red sandstone and terracotta dressings. Welsh slate with clay ridge crestings and corniced brick stacks. Northern Renaissance style. 3 storeys, 7-bay ground floor, 5-bay upper floors, the 2nd and 4th being narrow linking bays between the projecting centre bay, under a tall mansard with flanking stacks, and the outer bays whose shaped and pedimented gables have inward-scrolled feet. Central round-headed porch opening with Art Nouveau iron gates, flanked by round-headed windows and pilasters supporting curved balcony with iron railings; first-floor round-headed French door with fanlight and sidelights; all within 2-storey elliptical-arched recess with triple keystone. Paired round-headed sashes above, under name panel: 'CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB'; ramped parapet with urn angle finials and an upright bulls-eye in the mansard. 2nd and 6th bays of ground floor have round-headed subsidiary doorways flanked by round-headed windows to outer bays and elliptical-arched windows to inner bays. Outer bays of first floor have mullioned-and-transomed 8-light enriched oriels, supported on brackets rising from pilasters flanking ground-floor subsidiary doors; plain sashes with overlights to inner bays. 2nd floor has round-headed windows with enriched keystones, to outer bays; and plain sashes to inner bays. Mosaic floor inside centre doorway.

Listing NGR: NZ5119432556