No. 31, QUEENS ROAD

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

TA0830, 680-1/14/326

KINGSTON UPON HULL, QUEEN'S ROAD (North side), No. 31

(Formerly listed as: No. 36, Queens Road)

(Previously listed as St Vincent's Hotel)

GV

II

Built as St Vincent’s Boys Home, 1908-1909, architect Arthur Lowther of Hull. Later old people's home, converted late C20. Brown brick with red brick and ashlar dressings and hipped and gabled slate roofs with two side wall stacks. Main block, to right, four storeys plus attics; 5-window range. Windows are mainly glazing bar cross casements. Plinth, second floor band, corner pilasters with red brick quoins. Projecting centre has on the second floor a pair of transomed windows and beyond, on either side, a cross casement. Beyond again, single cross casements. Above, a canted 2-storey bay window on a shaped bracket, with roughcast panels and crenellated parapet. Three plain casements flanked by single cross casements and beyond, further single casements. Above again, the bay window forms a dormer with a 3-light plain casement and flanking pilasters. Below, a slightly projecting range with a pair of canted 2-storey bay windows with three cross casements above and 2-light plain casements below. Between them, a round-headed niche. Beyond, on either side, a cross casement on each floor. Right return has a projecting central bay, three storeys, with a window on each floor. Above it, a box dormer. Left return has a 3-storey corridor connecting with the left wing. On the first floor, a cross casement and above, a similar window flanked by smaller transomed windows. Below, a segment-headed double doorway with barred fanlight and segmental hood on brackets. On either side, a plain 2-light window. 3-storey left wing, eight windows, has red brick quoins. At each corner a diagonally placed projecting gabled bay with a single glazing bar window on each floor. Similar fenestration on each side of the projections. South facing end has a cross casement on the upper floors and below, a pair of panelled half-glazed doors with overlights. Left return, to west, has regular fenestration with a fire escape in the third bay.

Listing NGR: TA0851730650