Garden Village Shopping Centre

The Garden Village Shopping Centre, built in 1909, is a group value example of a shopping centre incorporating shops, a library, and flats. Designed by Runton & Barry for the Garden Village (Hull) Ltd., it was commissioned by the Reckitt family as part of a wider development. The building is constructed of stucco and brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, and has plain tile roofs with eight corniced ridge stacks. It is designed in a Georgian Classical Revival style.

The centre is arranged around a central green, forming an "E-plan." The main range features a projecting gabled central gateway surmounted by a square, domed clock tower. A two-storey round arch, with brick piers, quoins, and spaced voussoirs, provides entry at ground level, with a balustraded walkway above. A cartouche with a festoon sits above the arch. Flanking the main range are two-storey wings, each with a ground-level colonnade of Tuscan columns supporting a balustraded walkway. The first floor of each wing features an off-centre round-arched doorway and seven 12-pane sashes.

The pilastered ground floor on the main range is characterised by a central recess with a door and windows, flanked by three 9-pane sashes to the left, and a shop front with a glazed door flanked by single shop windows, a small window, a half-glazed door with sidelights, three 9-pane sashes, another small window and then a larger window to the library on the right. The left and right wings also have colonnades and walkways. The left side has three 9-pane sashes flanked by half-glazed doors, one with sidelights, a blocked window, then a door with a sidelight. The right wing has three large windows to the library and a door with a sidelight. All doors include overlights.

Gabled pavilions at the ends of the wings echo the central gateway's round arch, incorporating a front balustrade and a side arch balustrade. They feature two Tuscan columns in antis on the ground floor and a pair of 12-pane sashes above. The facing gables of the wings have a pair of 12-pane sashes above and a 3-light shop window below, with stone mullions and a cornice.

The rear elevations and returns have slightly projecting centre and end gables with regular fenestration featuring 12-pane sashes and central, pedimented doorcases. The gables have two 12-pane sashes on each floor, except the left rear gable, which has a round-arched recess on the ground floor.