Marina Recreation Centre Kingston Upon Hull, England
Listed Building Data
Marina Recreation Centre 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1297062
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 21 January 1994
- Name
- MARINA RECREATION CENTRE
- Location
- MARINA RECREATION CENTRE, COMMERCIAL STREET
- District
- City of Kingston upon Hull
- Grid Reference
- TA 09418 28207
- Easting
- 509417.5490
- Northing
- 428206.9589
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
KINGSTON UPON HULL TA 0928 SW COMMERCIAL ROAD (East side) 680-1/24/96 Marina Recreation Centre 21.1.94
II
Alternatively known as: Ellermans Wilson Line Offices, COMMERCIAL ROAD. Formerly known as: Ellerman's-Wilson Line Offices, COMMERCIAL STREET. Former shipping line offices, now recreation centre. 1872,converted c1980. Red brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and hipped and gabled slate roof with rounded corner, topped with a weather vane in the form of a Wilson Line Steamer. Stepped plinth, modillion wooden eaves. Recessed panels with dentilated heads, divided by pilasters. 2 storeys; 2 x 8 windows, with a rounded corner, 5 windows. Rounded corner has a central entrance bay with a traceried round-arched 2-light window with shafts. Above it, a recessed panel containing a clock. This clock was constructed by Wm Potts of Leeds in 1899, it has a pin wheel escapement and compensating pendulum, it was restored by D V Stipetic. Below, a round arched doorway with granite columns and steps with brass handrails. Late C20 glazed double doors with fanlight. On either side, 2 round-arched plain sashes with pilasters. Below, 2 windows on either side with similar pilasters and flat heads, the far right window now blocked. Left return, to Commercial Road has 2 round-headed windows above and 2 flat-headed windows below. Right return, to Kingston Street, has 8 tall round-arched margin glazed 2-light windows to the former general office. INTERIOR: has moulded cornice with double modillions, and coved ceiling. Internal clock has twins dials driven from a single weight driven movement and a dead beat escapement, it was constructed by Thomas Reynoldson of Hull c1872 and restored by D V Stipetic c1980. The wind vane is linked internally to a compass dial which indicates the wind direction, it was constructed by Thomas Reynoldson of Hull c1872 and restored by D V Stipetic c1980. It is the only such wind vane and direction compass still surviving in Hull.
Listing NGR: TA0948828472
