Also in the same section of Beverley Road, Hull only 50 yards south of the Baths (s.p.b.) and Stepney Primary School (s.p.b.) stand two early 20th century purpose-built public houses, both now disused.
The ‘Rose Inn’ standing on the west side of the road was built of red brick and included an unusual rounded corner capped by a lead-covered ‘onion dome’. In Lincolnshire onion-shaped caps were seen as the norm for tower-mills (tall windmills, sometimes six floors high) – currently in Barton on Humber a dispute exists over a semi-derelict tower mill off Waterside Road which a property developer wants to convert to residential use but does not wish to go to the expense of restoring its onion-shaped dome. The Rose Inn has a fine inn-sign hanging over the pavement depicting the head and shoulders of a lady dressed in Georgian clothes (inn-signs often have an interesting history but it is not a topic I am familiar with).
Across the Road stands the ‘Bull Inn’ (see above). Here ornate gables rising above the façade and entrance are like those of Bilson and Bryson on nearby buildings, although David Neave (s.p.b.s) informs us that neither designed this building. He also draws attention to ‘terracotta detail and faience panels on the building’s exterior’. I had to look-up faience ‘a general term for all kinds of glazed earthen-ware and porcelain’. Also notable is the pub-sign ”a handsome gilded figure of a bull (p. 557).
My blog next will be the last in this short series and, along with concluding comments, will show the golden pinnacle on top of the newly created band-stand in Pearson Park.