Nos. 614-620, HOLDERNESS ROAD

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 13 SW, 680-1/5/198

KINGSTON UPON HULL, HOLDERNESS ROAD (South East side), Nos. 614-620 (Even)

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Four shops and flats. 1912 with mid and late C20 alterations. By Gelder & Kitchen of Hull. Yellow brick, with ashlar front and dressings, roof not visible. Three grouped ridge and single corner stacks. Baroque Revival style. Three storeys; 4x2 windows. Corner site with splayed corner topped with a heavily buttressed ashlar dome with finial. Main front has a giant order of paired Ionic columns carrying an entablature with modillion cornice. Above it, a balustrade with pedestals supported by volutes. Four tripartite glazing-bar sashes, the central one with a large double keystone, and above, four transomed Diocletian windows. Below, four shop fronts with late C20 alterations and common fascia cornice with brackets. Angled corner, to right, has a glazing-bar sash on the upper floors, the first-floor one with a double keystone. Right return, of similar design, has to left two partly reglazed sashes and above, a Diocletian window. To right, a single sash on each upper floor. Below, three small segment-headed windows. To right, a brick block, two storeys; 5-window range.

Nos 614-620 were built as a shop for William Jackson and Son, grocers and confectioners. Jacksons owned the largest chain of grocery stores in Hull and the East Riding.

Listing NGR: TA1237030940