City Hotel

The City Hotel, located on Alfred Gelder Street in Kingston upon Hull, is a hotel dating to 1904, designed by Brodrick, Lowther & Walker. The building includes the adjacent property at No.14 Lowgate. Constructed of brick with a granite plinth and ashlar dressings, it features a slate mansard roof. It has a plinth, a cornice to the ground floor, sill bands, a dentillated cornice, a single shaped coped gable, and two plain coped gables. The building is four storeys high plus attics, with an L-shaped plan and a corner tower. It has a uniform 8x1 window arrangement.

The main front is characterised by three central bays defined by pilasters, along with an angle pilaster to the right. The central ground floor features a pair of cross casement windows, flanked to the left by a 3-light cross casement, and to the right, a transomed single window, then a pair of cross casements. Above, a central 4-light mullioned window is flanked to the left by a 2-light window and to the right by two 3-light windows, followed by a single-light and a 4-light window. On the second floor, a smaller window arrangement mirrors the first floor. The attic has a central shaped coped gable with a 2-light window and a 3-light box dormer. The ground floor entrance is a round-arched doorway with panelled double doors, a relief-carved tympanum, and a hoodmould. It is flanked by a 3-light cross casement with single-light windows to either side, and a smaller doorway with a cornice, alongside a round-arched doorway with granite pilasters, a fanlight, and an open pediment.

The polygonal corner tower has an ashlar top storey with a moulded cornice and an ogee copper dome. The first floor of the tower contains a transomed window with a cornice, flanked by larger, similarly styled windows with moulded surrounds and aprons. Upper floors mirror this fenestration but with smaller windows and without transoms or aprons. The ground floor of the tower features comparable fenestration under a continuous cornice. A single bay to the left return, facing Lowgate, has a 4-light cross casement with a relief-carved apron dated 1904 on its first floor. Above, smaller 3-light mullioned windows are present on each floor. Below, three transomed single-light windows are separated by pilasters.