No. 161, HIGH STREET is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Office building. 2 related planning applications.

No. 161, HIGH STREET

WRENN ID
shadowed-transept-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Kingston upon Hull, City of
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1994
Type
Office building
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 1028 NW, 680-1/23/191

KINGSTON UPON HULL, HIGH STREET (West side), No. 161

GV

II

Office building. Built by 1898, Phoenix Chambers, 161 High Street, was designed by B. S. Jacobs of Hull. Brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roof with two gable and single ridge stacks, all coped. Ashlar plinth with channelled rustication, ground-floor lintel and sill bands, frieze with relief panels and swags, dentillated eaves. Two storeys plus attics; 4x6 windows. Windows are mainly plain sashes. First-floor windows have cornices. High Street front has four windows and above, a coped parapet with two dormers with pilasters and shouldered pediments, each with a 3-light wooden cross casement. Below, an off-centre flat-headed doorway with steps and a segmental pediment, flanked to left by two windows and to right by a single window. Angled corner, to right, has three windows on the lower floors. Attic has a large canted dormer with central pediment containing a coat of arms and three wooden cross casements. Right return, to Chapel Lane, has six windows on the lower floors. Attic has two hipped dormers with ogee lead roofs and single-light windows.

Listing NGR: TA1018028764

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