Imperial Chambers

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE BOWLALLEY LANE 680-1/22/74 (South side) Imperial Chambers

GV II

Office building. 1876. By WH Kitching. Yellow and red brick with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible. 2 gable and single ridge coped brick stacks, one of them rebuilt. Venetian Gothic style. Plinth, channelled basement, ground floor cornice, sill and impost bands, moulded cornice with brackets and blocking. 3 storeys plus basement; 4x3 bays. Corner site with angle blind corner. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Main front, to Bowlalley Lane, has an off-centre entrance bay with a 2-light window running through 2 storeys, with panelled pilasters carrying a triangular open pediment. 2 round-arched plain sashes with central shafts, each with a low-set transom with a round window below it. To right, a segment-arched opening with hoodmould and finial, with 2 round-arched plain sashes divided by a central shaft. To left, 2 similar windows. Right return, to Land of Green Ginger, has 3 similar windows. Above, to right, a pair of round-arched plain sashes with central brick mullion, and to left, 2 similar windows. Right return has 3 similar windows. Ground floor has elaborate entrance with double pilasters on rusticated brick pedestals carrying a cornice on brackets. Round arched doorway with carved tympanum and panelled double doors. To right, a large plain sash with moulded segment-headed surround and finial. To left, 2 similar windows. Right return has 2 similar windows and between them, a similar surround with central mullion and 2 plain sashes. Each front has 3 segment-headed basement openings, now blocked. (Hull City Records Office document: OBLM 4949).

Listing NGR: TA0996628717