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Latitude: 53.7598 / 53°45'35"N
Longitude: -0.3357 / 0°20'8"W
OS Eastings: 509815
OS Northings: 430559
OS Grid: TA098305
Mapcode National: GBR GNH.QM
Mapcode Global: WHGFK.TRBJ
Plus Code: 9C5XQM57+WP
Entry Name: Former British Extracting Company Silo and Attached Receiving House
Listing Date: 15 November 1993
Last Amended: 8 April 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1208698
English Heritage Legacy ID: 387542
ID on this website: 101208698
Location: Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU8
County: City of Kingston upon Hull
Electoral Ward/Division: Newland
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Kingston upon Hull
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): East Riding of Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Hull, Drypool St Columba
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Silo
KINGSTON UPON HULL
680-1/15/127 FOSTER STREET
15-NOV-93 (West side)
FORMER BRITISH EXTRACTING COMPANY SILO
AND ATTACHED RECEIVING HOUSE
(Formerly listed as:
DALTON STREET
FORMER BRITISH EXRACTING COMPANY SILO
AND ATTACHED RECEIVING HOUSE)
II
Silo at oil extracting mill, and attached receiving house.
1919, by Gelder & Kitchen of Hull. Brick with ashlar
dressings. Roof not visible. Baroque Revival detailing.
Cornice and coped parapet. Pilaster buttresses above the third
floor.
6 storeys plus attics; 11x6 bays. Main block is windowless.
Ground floor has 10 blocked openings to south, and 3
segment-headed glazing bar windows to west. Attic storey has
11 similar windows to north and 6 to west. On the south side,
the parapet has raised lettering reading "British Extracting
Co. Ltd.". At the corners, the pilasters continue above the
cornice to form squat towers, with ashlar bands, caps and
cornices. At the south-west corner, a rusticated ashlar tower,
single stage, with round-arched openings and keystones, topped
with a water tank.
Attached to the south-west corner, a receiving house in the
same style. 4 storeys; 3x3 windows. Projecting corner
pilasters above the second floor, raised above the parapet to
form coped towers. Open ground floor carried on steel joists
and cast-iron columns. To west, 3 segment-headed glazing bar
windows on each floor. To south, similar openings fitted with
ventilators. North side has, to left, a loft door on each
floor, flanked to right by a single window on the first floor
and 2 windows on the upper floors.
INTERIOR is divided by cross walls into storage bins. The
receiving house was used for transferring material from road
and river into the silo.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
The Former British Extracting Company Silo and Attached Receiving
House, built in 1919 by architects Gelder and Kitchen of Hull, is
designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural Quality: It was designed by Hull
architects Gelder and Kitchen using interesting Baroque Revival
detailing.
* Historic Interest: It was built just after WWI as part
of the early C20 British Extracting Company Mill.
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