Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/03/2012

SE 7423
14/46

GOOLE
AIRE STREET
(east side)
The Macintosh Arms and
property adjacent to left

(Formerly listed as The Mackintosh Arms and property adjacent to left)

GV
II

House, now house, shop and public house. 1826 by Woodhead and Hurst of
Doncaster for Aire and Calder Navigation; later C19 shop front with C20
alterations, late C19 addition to rear. Brick in Flemish bond, colour-
washed. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Plinth.
Entrance to left of centre has original stucco or ashlar doorcase with
pilasters carrying entablature with modillioned cornice and hood; C20 double
panelled door beneath plain overlight in reveal. To left later C19 shop
front with recessed half-glazed fielded-panel door to left beneath moulded
lintel and plain overlight in panelled reveal, 4-light window to right with
moulded mullions above apron with basket-arched panels. To right, former
similar shop front with C20 brick infill incorporating 3 windows. Shop
fronts to both sides in wood surround with single pilasters to left and
right carrying plain frieze with modillioned cornice. (boxed-in to left).
First-floor ashlar sill band. Later C19 4-pane first-floor sashes in
original openings beneath rubbed-brick cambered arches. Short 6-pane
second-floor sashes with sills beneath similar arches. Plain C20 wooden
eaves board. Stack straddling ridge with plain ashlar band, brick cornice.
Interior. Entrance hall has moulded ribbed cornices,round-arched opening
with archivolt and panelled pilasters with roundel ornament. Moulded
cornice to shop, ground floor left. Ground-floor rear left room has
elaborate late C19 plasterwork frieze with urns and foliage, ornate cornice
and panelled ceiling with openwork floral and grapevine motifs, ceiling
rose; adjoining billiard room to rear has octagonal panelled ceiling with
similar plasterwork designs, rising to octagonal lantern. Both rooms have
low C20 false ceilings; the original ceilings visible through glass panels.
Part of the original planned port settlement beside Goole Docks. Aire
Street was the main commercial street. Porteous J D, Canal Ports, 1976.

Listing NGR: SE7470623372

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26364190

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)