Former Immigrant Station and Railway Platform is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Former immigrant station. 1 related planning application.
Former Immigrant Station and Railway Platform
- WRENN ID
- watchful-vault-twilight
- 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
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- Former immigrant station
- Address
- Former Immigrant Station and Railway Platform, Anlaby Road
- OS grid reference
- TA 090 286
- Coordinates
- 53.7432, -0.34798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former immigrant station and railway platform, now a social club, was built in 1871 by Thomas Prosser for the North Eastern Railway Company and was extended in 1881. It has undergone alterations in the late 20th century.
The building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features hipped slate roofs. It has an L-shaped plan and is a single-storey structure with thirteen windows, all of which are top hung casements. There is an off-centre late 20th-century door flanked by windows, two of which are blocked. At the rear, there is a railway platform with a renewed hipped canopy supported by cast-iron columns. To the south and east, there are ashlar screen walls with segment-arched openings.
Historically, this building is significant as it was exclusively used to handle immigrant passengers from north-west Europe to America. These passengers traveled by sea to Hull and then by train to Liverpool, where they embarked for America. For health reasons, they were segregated from other passengers, making this station part of the heritage of many Americans. The immigrant station or waiting room provided facilities for emigrants to meet ticket agents, wash, use the toilet, and take shelter from the weather. It is estimated that 2.2 million migrants, primarily from Scandinavia and the Baltic, passed through Hull between 1836 and 1914.
Local climate
Former Immigrant Station and Railway Platform 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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