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Victoria House

A Grade II Listed Building in Kingston upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7473 / 53°44'50"N

Longitude: -0.3526 / 0°21'9"W

OS Eastings: 508737

OS Northings: 429145

OS Grid: TA087291

Mapcode National: GBR GKN.42

Mapcode Global: WHGFR.K2BJ

Plus Code: 9C5XPJWW+WX

Entry Name: Victoria House

Listing Date: 21 January 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1218466

English Heritage Legacy ID: 387700

Also known as: Victoria Hospital for Sick Children

ID on this website: 101218466

Location: Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU2

County: City of Kingston upon Hull

Electoral Ward/Division: Myton

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: Sculcoates All Saints

Church of England Diocese: York

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Description



KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA02NE PARK STREET
680-1/8/273 (West side)
Victoria House

II

Formerly known as: Victoria Hospital for Sick Children PARK
STREET.
Former children's hospital, now offices. Dated 1890. By S
Musgrave. Red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped and
gabled slate roofs with single capped ridge stack. Gothic
Revival style. Plinth, sill bands, string course, corbelled
eaves. 2 storeys; 7-window range. Windows are mainly
untraceried lancets with double transoms to the first floor
and single transoms and cusped heads below. Ground-floor
windows are slightly smaller.
Projecting central entrance bay has 2-stage flanking buttresses
topped with tall shafts and panelled pinnacles with spires.
Crocketed coped gable with finial and band inscribed
"Victoria". Above it, a graduated triple lancet. On the first
floor, a pointed-arched recess with shafts and hoodmould
containing a triple lancet with plate tracery. Below, a
pointed-arched doorway with shafts, roundels and hoodmould,
containing half-glazed Tudor arched double doors with stone
traceried fanlight. Over the door, an inscribed label.
Flanking ranges have a central bay defined by canted pilasters
topped with pinnacles and with a coped gable. Between the
pilasters, a tall recess with hoodmould, containing a double
lancet with blind tracery. Below, a double lancet. On either
side, on each floor, a double lancet.
Beyond, to right, a square corner tower, 3 stages, with string
courses, corbel table and pyramidal roof. On the first floor,
2 transomed single lancets on each side. Above, 2 narrow slits
on each side. Below, a moulded pointed-arched doorway with
hoodmould and wrought-iron gate. Above the door, an arcade
with 3 cusped openings and round shafts.
Right return has the projecting ends of 2 gabled wings.


Listing NGR: TA0873729145

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