White House Hotel

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA 0928 NW JAMESON STREET (South side)

680-1/21/211 White House Hotel

23.7.92

GV II

Hotel, now shops and offices. 1891, by T Brownlow Thomnpson, Jameson Street front 1909 by Gelder & Kitchen of Hull, converted 1994 by Hull Smith, architects. Brick with ashlar and terrracotta dressings and slate roofs with various stacks. Renaissance Revival style. Plinth and dentilated main cornice. 4 storeys plus attics; 4-window range plus polygonal corner tower. Central entrance bay has a 2-storey canted oriel window with strapwork decorated base and 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. Below, painted terracotta doorcase with Ionic columns and segment-headed doorway with double keystone. Above it, a Diocletian window with overlight. On either side, the upper floors have 2 sashes with glazing bar upper lights. Ground floor has late C20 round-headed shop windows. Above the cornice, a polychrome banded attic storey with coped parapet and shouldered central coped gable with volutes. 5 round glazing bar windows each with 4 keystones. Corner tower has 3 sashes on each floor, with shaped recessed panels below the upper windows. Above the cornice, 3 smaller sashes with round-arched heads and double keystones, angle pilasters and ramped coped parapet.

Listing NGR: TA0938328835