Yorkshire Bank At Corner Of Eton Street

The Yorkshire Bank, located at the corner of Eton Street in Kingston upon Hull, is a bank building dated 1901, designed by JR Whitaker of Leeds for the Yorkshire Penny Bank. It is constructed of brick with a Westmorland slate roof, featuring terracotta dressings and a faience tile ground floor. The building is designed in the French Renaissance Revival style and includes a plinth, a ground floor cornice, string courses, and coped gables.

The structure stands three storeys high with attics and has a distinctive corner site with an angled corner. The first and second floor windows are plain sashes, while the corner entrance bay features a two-light window with a stone mullion. Above this, there is a smaller three-light window flanked by octagonal pilasters topped with ball finials, and below it, a cartouche. Above, a steep pitched gabled dormer contains a single light shouldered window, flanked by coats of arms and with a cartouche below. The roof is steeply pitched and pyramidal, topped with a wrought-iron crest.

The segment-arched doorway is flanked by octagonal piers with finials shaped like heraldic beasts holding shields. The double doors are fielded panelled and have a segment-headed mullioned overlight, with a relief panel featuring a dated scroll above. The main front facing Hessle Road has two pairs of shouldered sashes, and above them, there are two groups of three sashes divided and flanked by octagonal pilasters with ball finials, all under a ramped coped parapet with two segmental pediments containing inscribed tablets. Below the second-floor windows, there is a band of relief decoration, and beneath that, two segment-headed three-light cross casements are situated under a cornice adorned with three heraldic beasts holding shields.

The left return front facing Eton Street is similarly designed but with simplified ornamentation. To its left, there is a parapeted two-storey range with a pair of sashes, and below it, to the left, there is a door.