Roland House and Commercial Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1952. Former almshouses, offices. 2 related planning applications.
Roland House and Commercial Chambers
- WRENN ID
- woven-finial-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice MP: Emma Hardy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1952
- Type
- Former almshouses, offices
- Address
- Roland House and Commercial Chambers, Prince's Dock Street
- OS grid reference
- TA 097 286
- Coordinates
- 53.74295, -0.33774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Roland House and Commercial Chambers, formerly known as Ferres Hospital, is located on Prince's Dock Street in Kingston upon Hull. This building was designed in 1822 by John Earle and has undergone late 19th-century alterations. It is constructed of brick with painted ashlar dressings and features a hipped slate roof with two ridge stacks.
The building has a plinth, a ground-floor lintel band, a first-floor sill band, a moulded cornice, and blocking. The projecting center includes three windows topped with a pediment that displays a sculptured crest and trophy. It stands two storeys tall and has a five-window range of 12-pane sash windows with brick flat arches.
The central doorcase is adorned with pairs of Roman Doric pilasters and a mutule cornice, featuring the inscription "Roland House" flanked by anthemions. The entrance consists of a moulded six-panel double door, with flanking lights positioned between the pilasters. On either side of the doorcase, there are single segment-headed tripartite glazing bar sashes. To the right, there is a similar sash window, and to the left, there is another similar opening that contains a six-panel margin-stile door with sidelights and toplights.
Local climate
Roland House and Commercial Chambers receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 applications
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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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