Newland Homes Buckston Browne House

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side) Newland Homes, Buckston Browne House

GV II

Former orphanage. Dated 1895. Paid for by G Buckston Browne.

MATERIALS: yellow brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs with four external coped gable and single ridge stacks.

EXTERIOR: plinth, ground-floor lintel band, first-floor sill band, bracketed eaves. Two storeys; six window range. Windows are plain sashes. Central canted hipped projection has on the first floor a gabled inscribed datestone with the name of the benefactor, flanked by single sashes. Each return angle has a single sash.Beyond, on either side, two sashes. Below, three sashes, with a single sash in the left return angle. Right return angle has a half-glazed door with overlight. Beyond, on either side, two sashes. At the rear, two gabled wings.

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: TA0829531534