King's Buildings

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TA0928NE 680-1/22/355

KINGSTON UPON HULL SOUTH CHURCH SIDE (South side) King's Buildings

(Formerly listed as King's Market)

GV II Warehouse, now shops. 1875. By W Botterill. Yellow brick with ashlar ground floor and dressings. Roof not visible. Plinth, ground floor cornice, string courses, moulded eaves and blocking. Slightly projecting central entrance bay topped with segmental pediment. Projecting end bays defined by rusticated pilasters.

Four storeys; seven-window range. First floor has seven plain sashes, and above, seven smaller sashes. All these windows have cornices. Above again, seven smaller segment-headed sashes with shaped keystones. Ground floor has bays defined by pilasters and segment-headed openings with shaped keystones. Central doorway with double doors with shaped moulded panels and overlight, flanked by three single-pane windows with barred heads.

Left return has to right, a single bay with a window on each floor. To left, a range with four windows arranged 3:2. Ground floor has to left three small segment-headed windows with cellar openings below them, and to right a C20 door and a larger window, both segment headed. To left again, a segment-arched carriage opening.

Listing NGR: TA0993228515