Chablis Associates Ltd.

Architectural, Engineering, Design & Build – Property Lets

• The Civic Trust Awards
• Europa Nostra Award
• Business & Industry Award
• Come To Britain Trophy
• The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Award

• Directors:
• F. Daly B.Sc. (Eng.), MARLA
• J. M. Murray B.A.(Hons), Dip.Arch., RIBA, MRIAI
• J. Daly

Citylife-now is the marketing name for Chablis Associates Ltd. Chablis Associates rents out and maintains selected properties in Hull on behalf of private landlords.

Chablis Associates also has its own portfolio of apartment buildings. Developing flats in Hull for over 40 years, the directors of Chablis have won numerous National and International Awards for their regeneration projects including hotels, restaurants & leisure facilities.

Chablis Associates is in the unique and enviable position of having been able to carefully choose its ‘labour of love’ projects, then carry out its own design & build and finally rent out and maintain all the apartments in its portfolio.

• We choose projects on the basis of character and location.
• We design & build on the basis of respect for character & history and occupiers’ expectations (not maximum number of units).
• We rent out the apartments with no hidden extras and with a very quick response to reports of faults or breakdowns.
• We maintain the apartments to a high level.

Pier 9 History:

A ferry was recorded as crossing the River Humber from this point in 1315 AD. This Grade II Listed Building was built in 1880 by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Company as a link in the Great Eastern Railway Line. As the Hull Ferry Station & Ticket Office it serviced the Humber Ferries for over 100 years. The entrances, ticketing & waiting rooms are now the south facing living areas of our apartments.

The station closed with the opening of the Humber Bridge in 1981 and subsequent decommissioning of the Humber Ferry paddle steamers. Two of these historic ships can be visited today, the P.S. Tattershall Castle moored on the Thames on London’s embankment, and the P.S. Lincoln Castle, the last coal-fired paddle steamer used in daily service in the world, is now a restaurant in dock in Grimsby. Victoria Pier, in front of the Pier 9 building, is now Yorkshire’s only remaining pier.

Park Avenue History

This unique transformation of three Victorian villas is at the very centre of The Avenues Conservation Area. It is England’s only remaining set of domestic architecture designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott Junior. He designed these buildings in 1877. Among his other famous works are various Cambridge colleges including Christ’s, Pembroke & Peterhouse. His father is famous for designing the Albert Memorial in London, and his son Giles’ most notable buildings are Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station, and the famous K2 red telephone boxes, iconic symbols of British design famous throughout the world. One of Giles’ telephone boxes is located near this property and is painted in its traditional cream livery (as Kingston upon Hull was the only part of the UK where telephone boxes have never been painted red).

Carmichael House History

These Edwardian properties were originally built for the jewellers & department store owning Carmichael Family to overlook the park with its orchestra stand and lake. Their coach-house and stables have also been retained in the rear garden.

It was the birthplace, in 1920, of the film actor Ian Carmichael OBE. Best know for his roles as Lord Peter Wimsey, and Bertie Wooster and roles in Lucky Jim and Private’s Progress. Ian Carmichael’s obituary in The New York Times in February 2010 described the debonair actor as more like the trim urbane & clever Wimsey than many of his earlier film roles.

Ellerman Wilson Line History:

Founded in 1821, the Wilson Line of Hull became by 1903 the largest private shipping company in the world. By 1871, the Wilson Line had expanded from the Norwegian and Baltic services to accommodate regular American, Canadian, Indian, & Mediterranean services. This resulted in the completion in 1886 of the new quayside offices and warehousing we have restored on Kingston Street.

Hull’s Wilson Line retained a monopoly through the 1800s of all shipping between the Baltic ports and England, and consequently all onward emigration to the USA disembarked at the dockside overlooked from the rear of this building.