Former Burns' Head public house

Former public house, now a shop, 1884, by Robert Clamp of Hull, with C20 and C21 alterations. Neo-baroque style.

(Formerly listed as 39 WHITEFRIARGATE)

MATERIALS: stucco, slate roof.

PLAN: polygonal on plan.

EXTERIOR: the three-storey building, plus attics, has a stuccoed two-bay main (south) elevation facing Whitefriargate. The ground floor has a late-C20 shop front under a modern fascia. Above, on the first floor, are two keystone window surrounds with moulded cornices and straight and ornamented triangular pediments, both with late-C20 windows. Between the windows is an ornamented round-arched niche with shell finialled hoodmould and scrolled sill brackets. The windows are flanked by a pair of panelled and ornamented pilasters, with Corinthian capitals and fruit swag drops, and support a moulded cornice which forms projecting sills to the windows above, which are again decorated with ribboned floral swags. The two second-floor windows have moulded, eared and scroll shouldered surrounds under swan-neck pediments, decorated with swags, and with C20 two-light casements. Flanking the windows are two partially reeded end pilasters, with bas relief capitals, supporting a projecting moulded egg-and-dart cornice resting on fluted brackets. The attic storey has two dormers which rise from the second-floor cornice, each with a segmental headed window with a moulded, scrolled and keystone surround and two-light early-C20 casement. The windows are flanked by large elaborate volutes, with sculpted fruit clusters, and a short broken moulded cornice which supports two elaborate scroll shouldered and shaped gables, each terminated by a moulded and finialled shell pediment and centrally supported by a central scrolled and ornamented bracket. The building has a pitched roof, a tall coped and panelled west end chimney stack and two dormers.

INTERIOR: a range of fixtures and fittings are said to survive in situ on the upper floors.