Newland Homes Dr Lee House

Dr Lee House is a former orphanage designed by WH Bingley of Hull, built in 1897 and funded by Dr CE Lee. The building features yellow brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof, which includes two side wall stacks, two ridge stacks, and a single gable stack.

Architectural details include a plinth, a first-floor band, and traceried bargeboards with collars on the main gables. The structure is two storeys high with an eight-window range. Most windows are plain sashes, with a central through-eaves dormer that has two sashes, flanked by a single sash on the left and a paired sash on the right. Below the dormer is a full-width lean-to canopy that covers a central square bay window with three lights. To the left of the bay window is a half-glazed door, and to the right is a commemorative plaque. The gabled flanking wings each have two windows on both floors.

This complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was constructed between 1895 and 1902 by the Port of Hull Society, which was founded in 1821. The society established the Sailors’ Orphans Institution in 1836 but did not have a permanent home until the Park Street orphanage was built in 1868-1869, primarily funded by Sir Titus Salt of Saltaire. The Park Street orphanage was sold in 1897, by which time all the children had moved to the new complex on Cottingham Road.