Former Department Of Transport Marine Office

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TA0928NE 680-1/22/302

KINGSTON UPON HULL POSTERNGATE (North side) Former Department of Transport Marine Office

(Formerly listed as Department of Transport Marine Office)

GV II

Former Marine Office. 1868 and 1874, with mid and late C20 alterations and additions. By W Foale. Red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings and slate roofs with 5 gable and 2 ridge stacks. Gothic Revival style. Plinth, ground floor impost band, first-floor sill band, brick eaves corbels, shouldered coped gables with stacks or finials. 2 storeys and 2 storeys plus attics; 2 blocks, one of 6 windows, the other of 4. Between the blocks, a courtyard closed at the rear by a single-storey link building and spanned at first floor level by a C20 glazed bridge. First-floor windows are plain sashes with segmental heads and a recessed impost band. Larger left block has 2 sashes flanked by similar paired sashes with central shafts, and beyond them, single sashes. Above, 2 hipped dormers with 3 pointed lights. Below, 3 round-arched plain sashes flanked to left by a traceried panelled door and to right by a C20 flush door, both with overlights. Beyond, to left, another sash. Ground floor openings have a linked hoodmould. Right return has 2 plain sashes and above, 2 small round-arched windows. Below, a tripartite sash. Smaller right block has 2 sashes flanked by paired sashes with shafts. Below, 2 round-arched glazing bar sashes flanked by single traceried panelled doors with cusped overlights. Ground floor openings have linked hoodmould. Left return has a pointed recess on the first floor with a tripartite segment-headed sash and above, a small roundel. Below, a tripartite sash. Link building has central door and overlight, flanked by single windows. Rear elevation, to Trinity House Yard, has to left 2 sashes flanked by paired sashes and below, a door to left and 3 windows to right. Right block 7 plain sashes and below, a central door with cusped overlight, flanked by 2 plain sashes.

Listing NGR: TA0978728619