Monument Buildings

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE QUEEN VICTORIA SQUARE 680-1/22/319 (South side) Monument Buildings

GV II

Offices, now shops. 1902-08. By the North Eastern Railway Architects Dept. Ashlar with granite and ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roof with a coped gable stack. Jacobean Revival style. Ground floor cornice, dentillated main cornice, coped parapet with pedestals topped with urns. Single coped gable. Windows are stone mullioned and transomed casements. Those to the first floor have arched transoms, those to the second floor have round-headed lights. 3 storeys plus attics; 6 window range. Symmetrical 5 window section, to right, has a central square bay window with a 3-light window on each floor and a cartouche between the floors. Above, a shaped gable containing a cartouche and topped with a finial. On either side, a plain square bay window with a 3-light window on each floor. Beyond, a larger projecting bay with canted 2-storey bay window with a cartouche between floors. Above, a gable containing a round window with 2 keystones and drapery, fronted by a canted balustrade. The gable is topped with a stilted segmental pediment. To left, a smaller square bay window with a 2-light window on each floor. Ground floor has a central granite doorcase with rusticated Ionic pilasters and broken segmental pediment containing a cartouche with datestone. Moulded round-arched doorway with console keystone and fanlight in the form of a Diocletian window. To left, 3 segment-headed shop front openings with keystones, separated by granite pilasters. To right, 2 similar openings. Left return has at the angle a 3-storey turret topped with a spire and lead finial. 3-light window on each of the upper floors and a round-arched doorway with keystone and imposts on the ground floor. To left, a 3-light window on the upper floors, the first floor one blocked, and on the ground floor a round-arched opening with leaded fanlight.

Listing NGR: TA0965528727