Lowgate, Kingston upon Hull

Image: © Bernard Sharp Taken: 5 Jul 2025

The Guildhall was built 1903-16 as civic offices and law courts, replacing the Town Hall, demolished 1912, and sundry other buildings to the rear. Grade II* Listed Building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1279708?section=official-list-entry Nos. 76-77 Lowgate are a pair of late-18th-century merchants' houses, behind which, symmetrically arranged round a courtyard, were both the domestic offices and stable quarters and the warehouses. The latter are placed in the furthermost corners of the courtyards and have access from Lowgate by means of a pair of arches. Such houses are a late survival of a traditional practice that became outmoded in Hull after the opening of the first dock in 1778. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66791 Together with No. 78 Lowgate, they have for many years been occupied by the offices of the City Council, including a managed workspace centre, The Lowgate Centre, now closed. Grade II Listed Buildings https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1292189?section=official-list-entry No. 79 Lowgate, built 1881, former wine merchants' offices and warehouse for B.B. Mason. Restored and converted circa 1985 for the City Record Office, then vacant upon opening of the Hull History Centre. Grade II Listed Building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1197730?section=official-list-entry

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