Newland Homes Hannah Pickard House

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side) Newland Homes, Hannah Pickard House

GV II Former orphanage by WH Bingley of Hull. 1895. Paid for by Hannah Pickard.

MATERIALS: yellow brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with two side wall, one ridge and two gable stacks.

EXTERIOR: plinth, lintel band, first-floor band. Two storeys; six window range. Main range with projecting centre and two gabled rear wings. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Canted projecting centre has two windows, and between them, a commemorative plaque with a gabled hoodmould. In each return angle, a single window. Beyond, on either side, two windows. Below, three windows in the centre and in the return angles, a window to left and a half-glazed door with overlight to right. Beyond, on either side, two windows. Side gables have two windows on each floor.

HISTORY: this complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was built 1895-1902 by the Port of Hull Society and endowed by various benefactors whose names are attached to the various buildings. The Port of Hull Society for the Religious Instruction of Seamen was founded in 1821. The society established the Sailors’ Orphans Institution in 1836, but it did not have a permanent home until the Park Street orphanage was built in 1868-9, largely funded by (Sir) Titus Salt of Saltaire. The orphanage in Park Street was sold in 1897, by which time all the children were accommodated in the new complex on Cottingham Road.

Listing NGR: TA0833431532