British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

HARTLEPOOL WHITBY STREET
NZ 5132
(west side)
11/136 Nos, 14 and 16
8.6.84 (Constitutional
Club)

- II

Club; 1906; brick with red sandstone and terracotta dressings. Welsh slate
with clay ridge crestings and corniced brick stacks. Northern Renaissance
style. 3 storeys, 7-bay ground floor, 5-bay upper floors, the 2nd and 4th
being narrow linking bays between the projecting centre bay, under a tall
mansard with flanking stacks, and the outer bays whose shaped and pedimented
gables have inward-scrolled feet. Central round-headed porch opening with
Art Nouveau iron gates, flanked by round-headed windows and pilasters
supporting curved balcony with iron railings; first-floor round-headed
French door with fanlight and sidelights; all within 2-storey
elliptical-arched recess with triple keystone. Paired round-headed sashes
above, under name panel: 'CONSTITUTIONAL CLUB'; ramped parapet with urn
angle finials and an upright bulls-eye in the mansard. 2nd and 6th bays of
ground floor have round-headed subsidiary doorways flanked by round-headed
windows to outer bays and elliptical-arched windows to inner bays. Outer
bays of first floor have mullioned-and-transomed 8-light enriched oriels,
supported on brackets rising from pilasters flanking ground-floor subsidiary
doors; plain sashes with overlights to inner bays. 2nd floor has
round-headed windows with enriched keystones, to outer bays; and plain
sashes to inner bays. Mosaic floor inside centre doorway.


Listing NGR: NZ5119432556

Source: English Heritage

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