Cogan House

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 0928 NE, 680-1/22/73

KINGSTON UPON HULL, BOWLALLEY LANE (North side), No.17, Cogan House

GV

II

Office building. Architect Smith & Brodrick, built 1876-8, with late C20 alterations. Brick with ashlar and moulded brick dressings and slate roofs with two coped side-wall stacks. Plinth, sill bands, cornice, panelled coped parapet. three storeys plus attics; 9-window range. Windows are mainly plain sashes, those above the ground floor with round heads. First floor has nine windows with moulded heads and imposts. Above, nine similar windows with plainer heads, set in recessed panels separated by pilaster strips. Three strips above the entrance have moulded brackets. Above the cornice, a large off-centre dormer with cornice and machicolations, with two pointed-arched sashes in recessed panels, topped with a shouldered moulded coped gable with a graduated round-headed triple window. To right, a dormer with moulded coped gable topped with a finial, with a pointed-arched sash and hoodmould. To left, a similar double gabled dormer. Below, an off-centre entrance with a round-arched opening on corbels, with enriched spandrels, cornice and balustrade. In the opening, a pair of shouldered doorways, the left one with a moulded 4-panel door. Over each door, a moulded tympanum and above, a cusped roundel. To left, four plain sashes with flat heads. To right, a late C20 brick shop front with a transomed 3-light window to left and a door with overlight to right.

Listing NGR: TA1000328737