Boxing Club At Christopher Pickering Homes

The Boxing Club at Christopher Pickering Homes is a building from 1912, designed by Joseph H. Hirst for Christopher Pickering. Originally serving as a museum of fisheries and shipping and a reading room, it has undergone some alterations in the late 20th century. The structure is made of brick with ashlar dressings and features a plain tile roof with an external gable stack.

The exterior includes a plinth, quoins, a sill band, string courses, coped gables, and buttresses on the sides. It is a single-storey building with two sets of six windows. The facing gable has a central portico with steps, a coped gable, and a segmental pointed opening flanked by Corinthian granite columns. There are close-boarded double doors, and on either side, large pointed-arched glazing bar windows. The sides of the building feature two tall through-eaves dormers with pointed-arched glazing bar windows towards the front and four blank bays towards the rear. Above the rear, there is a large fully glazed raking dormer. The rear of the building has a full-width hipped porch with a central recess supported by wooden posts, central double doors, a boarded opening to the right, and an altered opening to the left with two windows. Beyond this, on either side, there are small two-light glazing bar casements.

Inside, the building has a wooden common rafter roof with collars. The building is included for its group value and was originally part of the Christopher Pickering Homes. It is now used as an amateur boxing club. Christopher Pickering was a trawler owner who is said to have significantly influenced the design, with various alternative plans preserved in the Hull History Centre.