Former Public Benefit Shoe Company Shop at Corner of Coltman Street Kingston Upon Hull, England

Listed Building Data

Former Public Benefit Shoe Company Shop at Corner of Coltman Street has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1025257
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
21 January 1994
Name
FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET
Location
FORMER PUBLIC BENEFIT SHOE COMPANY SHOP AT CORNER OF COLTMAN STREET, 152 AND 154, HESSLE ROAD
District
City of Kingston upon Hull
Grid Reference
TA 08405 27956
Easting
508404.9280
Northing
427956.1480

Listed Building Description

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KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE HESSLE ROAD 680-1/8/169 (North side) Nos.152 AND 154 Former Public Benefit Shoe Company shop at corner of Coltman Street

GV II

Shoe warehouse and shop. 1896, by Gelder & Kitchen of Hull for the Public Benefit Shoe Co. Flemish Renaissance Revival style. Brick with ashlar and granite dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with single ridge and single side wall stacks. String courses, moulded second floor sill band. 3 storeys plus garrets; 6x9 windows. Windows are mainly sashes with 4-pane upper lights and single pane lower lights. Main front, to Hessle Road, has to right a slightly projecting bay with octagonal buttresses topped with turrets and a shaped coped gable with a segmental pediment and finial. On the first floor, 2 stone mullioned cross casements and above, 2 pairs of mullioned windows. In the gable peak, a round window with wreathed surround. To left, a recessed bay with 2 transomed windows and above, 2 segment-headed windows with Tuscan columns between them. To left again, an octagonal corner tower with a rounded lower stage. At second floor level, 3 small windows. Above, a cupola with round-arched windows and Tuscan columns, topped with an octagonal spire ending in a domed turret with flagstaff. Between the first and second floors, an elaborate strapwork frieze in high relief. Below it, at the left corner, a clock flanked by coats of arms, and a small window. On the ground floor, a shop front, returned along the Coltman Street front, with granite pilasters and plinth. Curved brackets to moulded fascia cornice. Recessed central glazed door with round-headed glazed panel and overlight, flanked by single-pane windows with metal-framed toplights. At the left corner, a recessed double doorway with pilasters and blank overlight. Coltman street front has to left a projecting gable similar to that of the Hessle road front. On the first floor, 2 transomed windows and above, 2 flat-headed windows. To right, 3 pairs of transomed windows, and above, 6 segment-headed windows with Tuscan columns between them. Between the first and second floors, a frieze with 2 cartouches to the right. On the ground floor, to left, two 3-light windows. To right, 2 blank single pane shop windows with metal-framed toplights. Beyond, to left, a recessed single bay with a single window to the first and second floors and above again, a pair of smaller windows. On the ground floor, a recessed double door.

Listing NGR: TA0840527956