Newland Homes Buckston Browne House

Buckston Browne House is a former orphanage built in 1895, funded by G Buckston Browne. The building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs, along with four external coped gable stacks and a single ridge stack.

The exterior includes a plinth, a ground-floor lintel band, a first-floor sill band, and bracketed eaves. It has two storeys with a six-window range. The windows are plain sashes. A central canted hipped projection on the first floor displays a gabled datestone inscribed with the benefactor's name, flanked by single sashes. Each return angle has a single sash, and there are two sashes on either side. Below, there are three sashes, with a single sash in the left return angle. The right return angle features a half-glazed door with an overlight, with two sashes on either side. At the rear, the building has two gabled wings.

Historically, 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 for the religious instruction of seamen. 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 1868-1869, largely 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.