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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Victoria House, Park Street at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26679434

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)