ROLAND HOUSE AND COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS

COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218956
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: ROLAND HOUSE AND COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS
Statutory Address:: COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218956
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: ROLAND HOUSE AND COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET
Statutory Address 2:: ROLAND HOUSE, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: COMMERCIAL CHAMBERS, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET
Statutory Address:: ROLAND HOUSE, PRINCE'S DOCK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA0972728677

Details

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NE PRINCE'S DOCK STREET 680-1/22/311 (East side) 13/10/52 Roland House and Commercial Chambers

GV II

Formerly known as: Ferres Hospital PRINCE'S DOCK STREET. Former Ferres Hospital almshouses, now offices. Designed 1822, by John Earle, with late C19 alterations. Brick with painted ashlar dressings and hipped slate roof with 2 ridge stacks. Plinth, ground-floor lintel band, first-floor sill band, moulded cornice and blocking, projecting centre, 3 windows, with pediment containing a sculptured crest and trophy. 2 storeys; 5-window range of 12-pane sashes with brick flat arches. Central doorcase with pairs of Roman Doric pilasters mutule cornice and blocking with the inscription "Roland House" flanked by anthemions. Moulded 6-panel double door, with flanking lights between the pilasters. On either side, single segment-headed tripartite glazing bar sashes. Beyond, to right, a similar sash. To left, a similar opening with a 6-panel margin-stile door with sidelights and toplights. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire: York and The East Riding: Harmondsworth: 1972-: 278; Hall I & E: Georgian Hull: York: 1978-1979: 55,76,94).

Listing NGR: TA0972728677

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Legacy System number:: 387748
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hall, I, E , , A New Picture of Georgian Hull, (1978), 55 76 94
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 278

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.