27-28 Silver Street, Hull

27-28 Silver Street, Hull

This is a pair of 18th-century buildings that were merged and extended in the early 19th century with a further building range to the south, creating a combined structure of shops and residences. The building has undergone alterations from the 19th century onwards to the present day. It is constructed of brick with a stucco front, rendered rear, and slate roof.

The building is aligned north-south and is polygonal in plan. It rises to three storeys with a basement and attic, under a coped barrel roof and partially-pitched roof with brick end stacks.

The stuccoed front elevation to Silver Street comprises four bays and has two shop frontages with recessed entrances and a recessed porch at its western end containing an entrance door to number 26 and an entry passage to the Old White Hart Inn. The shopfronts are of early 19th-century date with finely carved wooden details. Each has three enriched pilasters rising to scrolled consoles with ball finials, supporting a thin moulded entablature with egg and dart moulding extant above the recessed alley and entrance porch. Each pilaster features a moulded concave panel, and the eastern pilasters retain shell ornamentation to the plinth with carved enrichment running between the pilaster and scrolled console. Four scrolled consoles with carved enrichment span the shopfronts; the second console from the west lacks its pilaster, having been repositioned below a replica carved console at the east end to extend the shopfront across the full elevation. The carved enrichment depicts a bacchus head to the console with fruit and foliage falling from its mouth to a fox head, dead fowl and floral garlands. Number 28 contains a late 19th-century central entrance shopfront with a chamfered stone plinth, single-pane shop windows on slender moulded stanchions, a recessed and gated entrance porch and a substantial late 20th-century fascia. Number 27 has an early 20th-century entrance shopfront with a tiled shop riser supporting a square bay with single-glazed panes, transom and top-lights.

The upper floors comprise a four-bay quoined façade with a decorated cornice to the first floor and moulded string band to the second floor. The first floor has four paired windows, each with a moulded surround and scrolled brackets supporting a moulded and ornamented flat pediment. The second floor has a matching arrangement of windows with eared and moulded window surrounds. The windows contain late 19th-century one-over-one sashes, except the first floor of number 28, which has a late 20th-century single pane window with top-lights. Above the second floor rise two substantial moulded acanthus leaf consoles supporting a projecting moulded eaves on scrolled brackets. Above these are four round-headed dormers with two-light transom casements and, in the centre, a smaller 20th-century box dormer.

The rear elevation to the north comprises three storeys and was originally two separate buildings dating from the early to late 18th century. The western two-bay elevation sits substantially further north and has a ground-floor entrance with a moulded arched door hood with shell ornamentation and a sash window to the east, partially concealed behind a brick courtyard. Above are two wide flat-arched first-floor windows and two narrower second-floor windows, all containing eight-over-eight sashes. Rising above is a slender eaves supported on block brackets with two box-dormers with 20th-century casement windows set into a barrel-arched slate roof with stone coping to the east.

The eastern two-bay elevation is concealed behind an outshut and has two flat stone lintel windows on each floor containing eight-over-eight sashes. Above is a moulded and bracketed eaves with a shallow pitched roof.

The return elevations abut number 21 to the west and numbers 29 to 30 to the east, with a brick rounded coped gable to the east and a rendered gable to the west.