Paragon Arcade

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KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0928NW PARAGON STREET
680-1/21/269 (South side)
Paragon Arcade

II

Includes: Nos.52 AND 53 CARR LANE.
Includes: Nos.47, 49, 53 AND 55 PARAGON STREET.
Shopping arcade. 1891, by A Gelder of Hull, with mid and late
C20 alterations. Brick with moulded brick, granite and ashlar
dressings and slate and glazed roofs. 3 gable and single ridge
coped brick stacks. Gothic Revival style. string courses,
dentillated brick eaves, bays defined by brick pilaster strips
with panelled ashlar tops.
Paragon Street front, 3 storeys; 4 bays. Off-centre moulded
archway with hoodmould, ornamented spandrels and shaft
imposts. To left, on the first floor, 2 canted stone oriel
windows with round-arched blind balustrades. To right, a
single similar window. Above, a band between floors inscribed
"The Paragon Arcade" in raised lettering. Above again, a
tripartite plain sash with polychrome lancet head set in a
coped gable above the archway. To left, 2 triple round-headed
lancets with polychrome heads and linked hoodmoulds. To right,
a similar window. On the ground floor, to left, 2 late C20
shop fronts and to right, a similar shop front.
Symmetrical Carr Lane front, 3 storeys; 3 bays. Similar design
and detailing to Paragon Street front. The inscribed band
reads "Paragon Arcade". To left, C19 wooden shop front with
single-pane window to left and recessed glazed door to right,
with continuous toplight with round arches. This shop front is
returned under the archway with 2 single-pane windows. To
right, a late C20 shop front.
INTERIOR has at each end a concrete pointed barrel vault with
4 pointed-arched recesses on each side. In the centre, a
glazed roof with delicate traceried cast-iron pointed-arched
ribs. At each end a polychrome gable with a quatrefoil window
in a moulded circular surround. On either side, a polychrome
banded upper storey with 7 pointed-arched wooden cross
casements with traceried heads. Moulded sill band and linked
hoodmoulds. Below, on either side, 9 shop fronts separated by
gabled glazed brick pilasters and with traceried toplights and
billeted cornices. 6 shop fronts at the Paragon Street end
have reglazed fanlights and C20 fascias.


Listing NGR: TA0944528761

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