Description

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TA02NE
680-1/8/171

KINGSTON UPON HULL
HESSLE ROAD (north west side)
No 894, Worsley House

(Formerly listed as Pickering Hall, HESSLE ROAD)

II
Former home for orphan girls, later an old people's home. 1914. By John Bilson of Hull. Brick with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof with two side wall and two rear wall stacks. Late C17 Domestic Revival style. Plinth and first-floor band.

Two storeys; eleven-window range. C-plan. Windows are glazing bar sashes with slight segmental heads. Central projecting ashlar entrance bay has an eighteen-pane sash with an eared and shouldered surround. To its left, an eighteen-pane sash, then two twelve-pane sashes. To its right, three twelve-pane sashes. Below, a moulded ashlar doorcase flanked by rusticated pilasters, with a panelled door. Flanking wings ave dentillated open pediments and two eighteen-pane sashes on each floor. Returns have two through-eaves pedimented dormers.

Listing NGR: TA0544027062

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571972

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)