The building's own name, referencing the legendary Lord Mayor of London Dick Whittington, ties it to one of English folklore's most famous rags-to-riches merchant legends, though no direct historical connection between the real or legendary Whittington and this specific Gloucester building has been traced in the sources consulted for this entry, the name most likely reflecting the property's own genuine mercantile origins as a 15th-century merchant's house rather than any documented link to Whittington himself.
The hunched figure in the cellar is recorded with no name or specific incident in the sources consulted for this entry, his physical description, hunched rather than upright, giving him a distinctive and somewhat pitiable presence compared with the more commanding or frightening figures recorded at several other Gloucester sites in this register.
The combination of floating lights and self-moving furniture gives this haunting a broader range of poltergeist-like physical phenomena than many of this register's single-manifestation traditions, situating the Dick Whittington alongside the separately recorded Littledean Hall as one of Gloucestershire's more actively and variously disturbed haunted properties.
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