21, 22 and 23 Whitefriargate

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TA0928NE
680-1/22/391

KINGSTON UPON HULL
WHITEFRIARGATE (South side)
Nos.21, 22 AND 23

16/06/71

GV
II

These buildings are located on the south side of Whitefriargate on land owned by Hull Trinity House, a religious guild (established 1369) which became a mariners’ guild in the mid-C15 and whose estate covers the majority of the former site of the Whitefriars (a Carmelite friary, founded in 1122 in Syria and established in Hull by around 1289). Hull Trinity House was originally a tenant of the Carmelites whose estate extended east from Trinity House Lane and north to south from Whitefriargate to Postern gate. With the dissolution of the monastery in 1536, it transferred through several hands until Alderman Thomas Ferries transferred what remained (known as the Ferries Estate) to Hull Trinity House mariners’ guild in 1621, before his death in 1631. Hull Trinity House began to let out land on building leases, starting with the corner of Trinity House Lane and Whitefriargate, and there was an on-going renewal of buildings in the estate with properties selected for redevelopment when their income would show the greatest improvement in financial returns.

These former houses were erected by the late C18 when Hull Trinity House was developing major construction schemes for blocks of houses on the south side of Whitefriargate. By the mid-C19 they were shops on the ground floor and offices on the first floor, with The Hull Packet offices occupying number 22 Whitefriargate. Drawings of around the 1880s by Frederick Schultz Smith show this building prior to re-fronting in the late C19. The upper floors are shown with flush sashes to simple brick window surrounds, with banded rustication to the ground floor and arched window and door surrounds. During the mid- to late C19 the building was re-fronted, with a rendered elevation and moulded windows surrounds, the first floor with ornamented brackets and cornices or pediments. They were designed to match the re-fronted elevation of numbers 30 to 33 Whitefriargate.

Three houses (now shops and offices) built by the late C18 and re-fronted in the C19, with late C20 alterations. The building is built in brick with a stuccoed front elevation and a rendered and coped left (east) gable set beneath a moulded eaves cornice and steeply pitched slate roof, with two ridge and gable end stacks. The front elevation is of three-storeys with a nine-bay window range of plain sashes. The first floor of each former house has a central pedimented window and flanking windows with cornices, all with moulded surrounds and scroll brackets. The three windows to the left (east) are altered at the bottom, and the central one is without a sill. Above are nine plain sashes with moulded surrounds and corbelled sills. On the ground floor there are three late-C20 shop fronts, and between the pair to the left (east) a doorway with an over-light.

Listing NGR: TA0979728695

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387842

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Sources

Other
Hull Museums Collections, accession number: KINCM:1981.415.32
Hull Museums Collections, accession number: KINCM:1929:91 and KINCM:1991.141.8337

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