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Date of photo: 2017	Picture source: Jo Turner
Grade-II listed mid 18th century buildings. 23 on the left was formerly the White Swan Inn that closed in February 1925 when compensation of £600 was paid to the owners the Hull Brewery Co Ltd. It was probably built between 1740 and 1758. The swan sign in situ is a replacement sometime after 1939 when it was described in The Rambler as '...this beautiful bird, round whose neck is decked a golden crown or chain a mark of a first-class house of entertainment.' The first listed victualler was John Allison 1791-92 and the last Walter Binks 1925-26 despite the inn being made redundant in 1925. A search of directories found; 1814-1815 John Donaldson; 1823 James Donaldson; 1826-1859 Michael Hind; 1864-1870 William Browsho'; 1872 Frederick Ward; 1877-1879 David Harris; 1882 Charles Kitchen; 1887 George Leader; 1889 Charles Leader; 1892-1893 Charles Witherwick; 1897 Charles Voase; 1899 John Edward Hustler; 1906 Mary Jane Emeny; 1913-1919 Frederick Curtis; 1921 Charles Mathew Lister.
Source: Steve Turner
Listed building details:
Mid C18, altered. Two storeys and attics in brick, rough rendered with applied half-timber, with slate roof and three dormer sash windows with moulded pediments. Two 3-light canted very shallow bay windows at first floor. C19 shop front to ground floor. Of original two windows and two doors with fine pilasters with Corinthian capitals, dentil cornice and entablature, one doorway now a window. To the left a part-glazed door and a window with a modern door. Staircase with closed string, plain newels, handrail but no balusters.
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