2, Adam Street

GOOLE ADAM STREET SE 7423 (north side)

14/44 No 2

GV II Former Commercial Buildings, now shops and houses. Includes section fronting onto Chapel Street. 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of Doncaster for Aire and Calder Navigation; later C19 shop fronts. Brick, stuccoed. Welsh slate roof. Occupies site on corner of Chapel Street. 2 storeys, 2 first- floor windows to Adam Street front. Pilaster strips to end of each elevation. Shop front to rounded corner has central C20 board door beneath original overlight in reveal, flanked by 3-transomed-light shop windows to each street. To left (Adam Street), another similar shop front with 6- fielded-panel door and overlight in reveal to left, and 3-light shop window to right. All shop fronts have doors and windows in wooden surrounds with pilasters, carved consoles (missing to Chapel Street front) and plain frieze with dosserets, cornice. and hood. All windows partly boarded up at time of resurvey. First floor: window to corner with unsympathetic C20 glazing in original eared and shouldered architrave; pair of later C19 4-pane sashes to left in original surrounds with sills and eared and shouldered architraves. Worn bracketed raised tablet between sashes inscribed:

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS

Moulded cornice, coped parapet. Large corniced roof stack to Adam Street front; corniced ridge stack to Chapel Street front. Roof hipped to corner. Interior not investigated. Forms part of a terrace with the Royal Hotel (qv). Interior altered in C20. Part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks. Porteous J D, Canal Ports, 1976.

Listing NGR: SE7472623350