21, 22 and 23 Whitefriargate

Three houses built by the late 18th century and re-fronted in the 19th century, with late 20th century alterations. Located on the south side of Whitefriargate on land owned by Hull Trinity House, a religious guild established in 1369 which became a mariners' guild in the mid-15th century. The site occupies part of the former Whitefriars, a Carmelite friary founded in 1122 and established in Hull by around 1289. Following the dissolution of the monastery in 1536, the land passed through several hands until Alderman Thomas Ferries transferred the remaining estate (the Ferries Estate) to Hull Trinity House mariners' guild in 1621.

Hull Trinity House began letting out land on building leases in the late 18th century when it was developing major construction schemes for blocks of houses on the south side of Whitefriargate. By the mid-19th century these properties had become shops on the ground floor and offices on the first floor, with The Hull Packet offices occupying number 22 Whitefriargate. Drawings from around the 1880s by Frederick Schultz Smith show the building before re-fronting in the late 19th century, with the upper floors displaying flush sashes in simple brick window surrounds and banded rustication to the ground floor with arched window and door surrounds. The building was subsequently re-fronted with a rendered elevation and moulded window surrounds, the first floor featuring ornamented brackets and cornices or pediments. The re-fronted elevation was designed to match numbers 30 to 33 Whitefriargate.

The building is constructed in brick with a stuccoed front elevation and 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 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 20th century shop fronts, and between the pair to the left (east) a doorway with an over-light.