Ferens Art Gallery is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1973. Art gallery. 6 related planning applications.
Ferens Art Gallery
- WRENN ID
- brooding-lancet-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice MP: Emma Hardy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1973
- Type
- Art gallery
- Address
- Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, HU1 3RA
- OS grid reference
- TA 096 287
- Coordinates
- 53.74327, -0.3393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Ferens Art Gallery is an art gallery located in Kingston upon Hull, built between 1924 and 1929 by architects S.N. Cooke and E.C. Davies. The building is constructed of ashlar with a roof that is not visible, featuring a coped external factory-style side wall stack. It is designed in a Neo-Classical style and consists of a tall single-storey central block flanked by lower blind wings.
The central block has three bays, a plinth, and a full entablature with a frieze inscribed "The Ferens Art Gallery." There is a pierced balustrade above the recessed central bay and a coped parapet on the outer bays. A portico in antis is located at the center, supported by two fluted Corinthian columns and flanking pilasters. The side openings feature bronze railings with the monogram RF.
Under the portico, there is a central reeded stone doorcase with an open pediment on scroll brackets, flanked by single leaded windows with cornices. All openings are adorned with a frieze of linked circles. The outer bays are characterized by large angle pilasters and a single round-headed leaded window with a console keystone. The wings have a frieze decorated with linen swags, a moulded cornice, and a coped parapet. The interior was not inspected, and the building was undergoing reconstruction at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Ferens Art Gallery 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
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