Pacific Court

Pacific Court, Kingston upon Hull

A complex of former warehouses and offices, now converted to a university hall of residence. The site comprises five separate historic structures spanning from the 17th century to 1899, converted during 1999–2000.

Former No. 36A is a warehouse and office dating to around 1870, constructed in brick with painted ashlar dressings and a slate roof in the Gothic Revival style. The building features a plinth and string courses with modillion eaves. It rises 3 storeys and displays a 2-window range of corniced square wooden oriels on wooden brackets, each fitted with 2 plain sashes. Above these are 3 plain sashes with segmental pointed heads. To the left below is a paired plain sash with segmental pointed heads and central column. To the right is a segmental pointed carriage entrance with iron gates.

Former Nos. 37 and 37A form a single warehouse dating to around 1830, with 20th-century alterations. Built in red brick with corrugated sheet roofs, it rises 4 storeys. The street front contains 5 windows with a painted rendered plinth and wooden gutter brackets. Central taking-in doorways serve the lower 3 floors, each fitted with double plank doors; the upper 2 retain their wooden taking-in shelves supported on chains, and the top door has a projecting hoist. The ground floor features 2 late 20th-century casements to the left and, to the right, a cross casement and barred window. The first floor has 2 barred windows on either side. The second floor has, to the left, a 2-light casement and barred window, and to the right, a blank and barred window. The top floor has 5 barred windows. The rear gabled front has 2 shuttered openings to each floor, with a further rear wing to the right. This wing is 4 storeys with irregular fenestration and a narrow additional front to the rear. This rear front has central taking-in doorways to the lower 2 floors, each flanked by a single shuttered opening. Above is a broad taking-in doorway with a single shuttered opening to the left. Above again is a single taking-in doorway.

Former No. 38A is a warehouse also dating to around 1830, with 20th-century alterations. Identical in construction and arrangement to Nos. 37 and 37A, it is built in red brick with corrugated sheet roofs and rises 4 storeys. The street front contains 5 windows with painted rendered plinth and wooden gutter brackets. Central taking-in doorways serve the lower 3 floors, each with double plank doors; the upper 2 retain wooden taking-in shelves supported on chains, and the top door has a projecting hoist. The ground floor has 2 late 20th-century casements to the left and, to the right, a cross casement and barred window. The first floor displays 2 barred windows on either side. The second floor has, to the left, a 2-light casement and barred window, and to the right, a blank and barred window. The top floor has 5 barred windows. The rear gabled front has 2 shuttered openings to each floor, with a further rear wing to the right. This wing is 4 storeys with irregular fenestration and a further narrow front to the rear. This rear front has central taking-in doorways to the lower 2 floors, each flanked by a single shuttered opening. Above is a broad taking-in doorway with a single shuttered opening to the left. Above again is a single taking-in doorway.

Former No. 40 is a former office dated 1899, designed by BS Jacobs. It is constructed in brick with a rusticated ashlar plinth and terracotta dressings, featuring gabled, hipped, and mansard slate roofs, partly glazed. The building displays Renaissance Revival styling. The ground floor has a sill band, with polychrome string courses and a second-floor cornice. It rises 2 storeys plus attics and contains 4 by 7 windows. A projecting central double bay with a coped gable is flanked by pilasters. Within this bay are two 3-light double transomed cross casements with leaded glazing. Above are 4 plain sashes, and above again are 2 smaller windows. In the gable peak is a coat of arms. Below the bay, to the right, is a doorcase with heavily rusticated pilasters and triangular pediment bearing a coat of arms, featuring a moulded round-arched doorway with keystone and enriched spandrels. To the left is a 3-light cross mullioned window with leaded glazing, above which is a relief panel with a coat of arms. To the right is a recessed bay containing a full-height square oriel window with a tall 4-light mullioned and transomed casement with Ipswich glazing bars at the bottom and leaded glazing. Above are 4 small plain sashes, and to the right a recess with a smaller window. To the left is a recessed entrance bay with a canted 2-storey oriel window with coped parapet, featuring a single cross casement and, above, 2 plain sashes. Below is a square-headed cart entry.

The rear range fronts Bishop Lane Staith and has the first floor clad in white glazed brick. To the left is a 2-storey block with 4 large round-arched glazing bar windows carried up into the partly glazed mansard roof, with a full-width metal tank in front of the windows. Below are 4 square blocked windows. To the right is a higher 2-storey block with a hipped roof topped with a metal ventilator and 3 wood-framed Diocletian windows. Below is a single-storey lean-to projection with 3 segment-headed openings.