Former Yorkshire Bank is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Former bank. 1 related planning application.
Former Yorkshire Bank
- WRENN ID
- dim-pilaster-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice MP: Emma Hardy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- Former bank
- Address
- Former Yorkshire Bank, Queen Victoria Square, HU1 3EB
- OS grid reference
- TA 096 288
- Coordinates
- 53.74415, -0.33886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Yorkshire Bank is a building located in Kingston upon Hull, constructed in 1898 by BS Jacobs. It is designed in the Renaissance Revival style and features a brick structure with a faience front, terracotta dressings, and a granite plinth. The building has a plain tile mansard roof and a single brick gable and rear wall stacks.
The façade includes string courses, a moulded main cornice, and a coped parapet. It stands three storeys tall, plus attics, and has a total of nine windows across five bays. Positioned on an acute angled corner site, the entrance features an octagonal oriel window that rises three storeys, flanked by three plain windows of diminishing sizes on each floor. Above the parapet, there is a drum tower adorned with a dentillated cornice, round windows, and keystones, separated by strapwork pilasters. The tower is topped with a conical tile roof that has four gabled dormers and an octagonal domed lantern with a ball finial.
On the ground floor, there is a round-arched doorway with a grille over the light and a pair of panelled doors, set within a pilastered surround topped with a pediment on curved brackets. The left side of the building, facing Savile Street, features round-arched single-pane windows with transoms, keystones, and enriched spandrels, arranged in a pattern of three, two, two, and two, and divided by heavily rusticated pilasters beneath a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The second floor has smaller flat-headed windows arranged similarly, separated by paired pilasters, each topped with a triangular pediment. The attic storey has a panelled parapet with pedestals capped by urns, and four shouldered pedimented dormers, each containing a two-light casement.
The ground floor includes four moulded round-arched openings, each with a transomed three-light window featuring glazing bars in the upper lights. The left window has been altered to accommodate a 20th-century door with a sidelight. The right side of the building, facing New Cross Street, mirrors the design of the left, with five windows on the upper floors, two dormers, and two ground-floor windows, including a small pedimented window with a round window above it.
Local climate
Former Yorkshire Bank receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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