Tower Cinema

The Tower Cinema is a former cinema, designed by H Percival Binks of Hull, that opened on 1st June 1914 and closed in 1978. It is now a nightclub with alterations made in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of brick with white and green faience front dressings, and has hipped and gabled slate and concrete tile roofs. It is an example of Baroque Revival architecture incorporating what Nikolaus Pevsner described as "Art Nouveau details debased in the extreme."

The front of the building has a plinth, string courses, a single coped gable, and parapets. A heavy, moulded, dentillated cornice runs along the entrance front. The recessed two-storey entrance is flanked by stepped piers topped with a partly pierced balustrade, a raised central block, obelisk finials, and an allegorical female figure. A segmental faience arch is embellished with stained-glass piercings bearing the name of the building. A balcony with a wrought-iron balustrade and a pair of Ionic faience columns sits above the arch. At the rear is a large lunette with a sunburst surround, framing a pair of segment-headed glazed doors with stained-glass sidelights and toplights, some of which have been reglazed. Cartouches with floral festoons are located on either side of the lunette. Below the arch is a splayed entrance with two pairs of glazed doors and sidelights. Flanking this entrance are rounded corner towers topped with a mosaic dome and finial, and flanked by stepped piers with obelisk finials and scroll brackets. On the channelled rusticated first floor is a round-headed margin glazed window, above which is a frieze with relief decoration. Below the window is a rounded faience doorcase with a swagged scroll pediment, and above it a cartouche with putti.

The side elevations have four bays divided by pilasters. The parapets contain three half-round, louvred ventilators. The side-entrance bays, nearest the front, each have a half-round glazing bar window and a tall recessed doorway with a cornice and a blocked door from the late 20th century.