Numbers 53 And 55 Spring Bank And Attached Railings

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TA 02 NE, 680-1/8/361

KINGSTON UPON HULL, SPRING BANK (South West side), Nos. 53 and 55 and attached railings

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Two houses, now houses and shops, and attached railings. c1830, with late C20 alterations. MATERIALS: brick with slate roofs and single gable and single ridge stacks.

EXTERIOR: rusticated basement, moulded wood modillion eaves. Three storeys plus basements; four-window range of 12-pane sashes with keystone lintels. Above, four nine-pane sashes with similar lintels. Below, two moulded doorcases with steps and wrought-iron spearhead balustrades, and doors with three shaped fielded panels and overlights, the right one margin glazed. Alternating with the doors, a plain sash to left and a 12-pane sash to right, with moulded surrounds. All these openings have cornices on consoles. Basement has, to left, a plain sash and to right, a triple plain sash. Outside, wrought-iron spearhead area railings with gates.

HISTORY: 53 and 55 Spring Bank were part of Belgrave Terrace built about 1830. The children’s writer Mrs OF Walton [Amy Catherine Walton] (1849-1939, author of Christie’s Old Organ (1874), Little Dot (1973) and A Peep Behing the Scenes (1877) was born at 5 Belgrave Terrace which map evidence indicates was the present 55 Spring Bank. Walton was the daughter of the Red John Deck, vicar of St Stephen’s, Hull, and she was resident in Hull, latterly around the corner in Park Street, until her marriage in 1875. Her best-selling novels were evangelical in tone and were very popular Sunday School prizes.

Listing NGR: TA0890729335