The Market Hall And Bob Carvers Fish And Chip Restaurant

The Market Hall and Bob Carver's Fish & Chip Restaurant, Kingston Upon Hull

A market hall with adjoining restaurant occupying North Church Side and Trinity House Lane. The market hall was designed by Joseph H. Hirst, the City Architect, and constructed between 1902 and 1904, with a mid-twentieth-century addition to the east. The building was refurbished in 1990. The structures are constructed of brick and ashlar with ashlar dressings and bands, featuring gabled and hipped slate roofs to the front buildings and glazed roofs with clerestories to the market hall itself. The architectural style is Simplified Renaissance Revival.

The North Church Side frontage comprises a main block of two storeys to the right, with a range of five windows divided by shallow piers. These piers are partly stone-faced and carry banding on the first floor with wreathed cartouches on each floor. Above the moulded main cornice, the piers are coped and the parapet has concave sweeps between them. The five windows are 3-light cross mullioned openings, each fitted with a segmental iron balcony and a panelled apron below. The ground floor features an arcaded design with segment-headed openings flanked by keystones and a moulded cornice swept over the piers. Three late twentieth-century four-light glazing bar windows and two double doors with sidelights and fanlights now occupy parts of this level.

To the right stands a three-stage bell tower crowned with a copper dome and domed lantern. The lower stage is ashlar, containing a double board door and a 15-pane window above it, both with segmental hoods. The second stage is brick with stone bands, small stair lights, and a heavy cornice. The bell stage is ashlar with concave sides and bevelled corners, decorated with scroll brackets and flanking Ionic pilasters, with moulded cornices at head and foot and round-arched openings with keystones on each side.

To the left of the main block is a lower two-storey section with a simpler cornice and plain parapet. This section features a 3-light cross mullioned window and a smaller 3-light mullioned window above the door with an apron and wreathed cartouche below. Below these, to the left is a small cross casement, and to the right a recessed board door with a segmental hood and separate half-round fanlight with a moulded segmental hood and large keystone.

The west front, facing Trinity House Lane, features a four-storey entrance bay to the left with a coped gable and a side wall stack. On the first floor is a tripartite cross casement in a stone surround with scroll supporters and a segmental pediment with large keystone, with a segmental balcony in front of the window. Above, each floor contains a 3-light window with stone mullions. The ground floor has a segment-headed cart entrance with keystone and moulded segmental hood on brackets.

The restaurant section to the right of the Trinity House Lane front has a wooden eaves cornice with gutter brackets, a coped gable and a massive ridge stack. It rises three storeys plus attics across a 3-window range. To the left is a 3-light stone mullioned stair window, with two much larger 3-light cross mullioned windows to its right. Above these is an off-centre pair of 4-light mullioned windows with a relief-carved panel between them. Two large gabled dormers with 2-light glazing bar casements occupy the storey above. The ground floor features a wide opening with folding doors and toplights to the right and a doorway with moulded stone lintel and overlight to the left. The twentieth-century market place front has rolling shutter doors.

The interior comprises three aisles with the central aisle higher than the others. Arcade plates are carried on round iron columns. The roofs are arch-braced steel trusses, mainly glazed, with glazed gabled clerestories.