Concrete Workshop Block at De Smet Rosedowns Limited is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1978. Workshop. 6 related planning applications.
Concrete Workshop Block at De Smet Rosedowns Limited
- WRENN ID
- night-newel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham MP: Dame Diana Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1978
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Concrete Workshop Block at De Smet Rosedowns Limited, Caroline Street, HU2 0AD
- OS grid reference
- TA 096 295
- Coordinates
- 53.7511, -0.33791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The concrete workshop block at De Smet-Rosedowns Ltd, located on Caroline Street in Kingston upon Hull, was built in 1900 for Rose, Downs & Thompson. This disused workshop is constructed using in-situ reinforced concrete following the Hennebique principle and is painted. The building stands four storeys tall and features a cornice.
The front facade facing Caroline Street has a segment-headed window to the left on the ground floor, while the remaining windows are blocked. Above this, there are two segment-headed windows and six wooden casements to the right. The third floor contains eight wooden casements. To the left of the cornice, there is a square clock tower with a cornice.
The rear elevation includes a glazed external stair that covers some of the windows. On the first floor, there are two blank windows flanked on the left by four segment-headed windows and on the right by two similar windows. Above, there are four segment-headed windows with blank tops to the right, followed by two more windows with blank tops. The ground floor features a flat-headed three-light window flanked on the left by four round-headed windows and on the right by two similar windows. This building is notable for being the first constructed in England using the Hennebique method.
Local climate
Concrete Workshop Block at De Smet Rosedowns Limited receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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