Newland School For Girls

Newland School for Girls, Kingston upon Hull

Girls' school, dated 1914, designed by J H Hirst, City Architect. Built in red brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with two brick ridge stacks, in Neo-Georgian style. The building comprises two storeys with attics in places, arranged as an F-plan with a central block, flanking wings, and end pavilions. The fenestration extends across a 36-window range, arranged 9:9:3:9:6.

The central block and pavilions feature rusticated quoins, pilasters, moulded cornices and pierced balustrades with central pediments. The central block displays three 3-light stone mullioned cross casements, with the central one flanked by enriched pilasters. Above sits an open pediment containing a Diocletian window with keystone. Below this, a central pedimented portico is supported by paired Doric columns and contains a moulded round-arched entrance with keystone, leading to a panelled recess with panelled double doors and fanlight. The flanking wings have moulded wooden eaves with nine wooden framed cross casements featuring glazing bars; the ground-floor windows are distinguished by double keystones. Above these are two hipped louvred roof ventilators.

The larger left pavilion contains nine wooden framed cross casements with the central three flanked by enriched pilasters. A pediment above carries a Diocletian window with keystone. The central ground-floor windows have multiple keystones, whilst the flanking windows have double keystones. The right pavilion exhibits similar fenestration with six windows, and between the central ground-floor windows stands a cartouche. The right return features a central glazing bar sash, with on either side a 3-light glazing bar casement with an elongated keystone rising into a segmental pediment forming part of the eaves cornice. Beyond are single casements. A lean-to conservatory with ten bays, glazing bars and glazed door extends below.

At the west end stands a two-storey library, five bays wide, with a hipped slate roof topped by a domed bell turret with coved sides and round-arched openings, flanked by two hipped louvred ventilators on either side. The library features three canted stone oriel windows with stone mullioned cross casements, bearing coats of arms below and flanked by single cross casements. Below runs a round-arched arcade of three bays containing glazing bar Diocletian windows, the central bay with a half-glazed door and sidelights. Beyond are single round windows, the right one with two small casements below. The east side, facing the courtyard, displays similar fenestration, with to the right a triple bay containing three wooden cross casements on each floor. Further right stands an entrance bay with a canted two-storey porch topped with balustrades, featuring a first-floor cross casement and below a door with overlight, flanked by single small casements and above them single smaller casements. At the rear is a hipped two-storey building of 2 by 2 windows.

The main range rear elevation features to the west four shouldered gables, each with a 3-light stone mullioned window above and a Diocletian window below (the left one altered to form a doorway). To the east are three gables with similar fenestration.

A projecting off-centre Hall projects from the rear, with a hipped roof, turret and ventilators similar to the library. A cornice and moulded coped parapet run around the external side, which has a wall stack. On either side are five tall 3-light stone mullioned cross casements with coats of arms between them. Below are four Diocletian windows, and to the north a 3-light stone mullioned window and a doorway.

The interior contains a central lobby with a moulded beamed ceiling and a panelled round-arched five-bay arcade on each side. The entrance side features a central pair of doors with lattice glazing bars, flanked by two 2-panel doors, all with glazing bar fanlights. The opposite side displays a central branching stone staircase with balustrade leading up, flanked by single flights leading down. Beyond are single pairs of glazed doors with fanlights. At either end is a round-arched window and similar doors with double doors leading to a spinal corridor with segmental arches and green glazed tile dado.

Although designed as a school, the building served as a military hospital until 1919.