Former Yorkshire Bank

TA0928NE 680-1/22/323

KINGSTON UPON HULL QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE (North side) Former Yorkshire Bank

(Formerly listed as Yorkshire Bank)

GV II

Former Bank. 1898. By BS Jacobs. Brick with faience front, terracotta dressings and granite plinth, with plain tile mansard roof and single brick gable and rear wall stacks. Renaissance Revival style. String courses, moulded main cornice, coped parapet. 3 storeys plus attics; 9x5 windows. Acute angled corner site. Corner entrance has an octagonal oriel window, 3 storeys, with 3 plain windows of diminishing sizes on each floor. Above the parapet, a drum tower with dentillated cornice, round windows and keystones, divided by strapwork pilasters. Conical tile roof with 4 gabled dormers, topped with octagonal domed lantern with ball finial. On ground floor, a round-arched doorway with grille to overlight and pair of panelled doors, set in a pilastered surround with pediment on curved brackets. Left front, to Savile Street, has round-arched single-pane windows with transoms, keystones and enriched spandrels, arranged 3:2:2:2 and divided by heavily rusticated pilasters under a pulvinated frieze and cornice. Second floor has smaller flat-headed windows similarly arranged, divided by paired pilasters and each with a triangular pediment. Attic storey has panelled parapet with pedestals topped with urns, and 4 shouldered pedimented dormers each with a 2-light casement. Ground floor has 4 moulded round-arched openings each with a transomed 3-light window with glazing bars in the upper lights. The left window is altered to contain a C20 door with sidelight. Right front, to New Cross Street, is of similar design, with 5 windows on the upper floors, 2 dormers, and 2 ground-floor windows. On the ground floor, to right, a small pedimented window with a round window above it.

Listing NGR: TA0965028808