Ferens Haven And Boundary Wall

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA13SW HOLDERNESS ROAD 680-1/5/200 (North West side) Ferens' Havens and boundary walls

GV II

Almshouses, now old people's homes, and boundary walls. Dated 1911. By Runton & Barry. Paid for by Rt Hon TR Ferens. Brick with ashlar and brick dressings and plain tile roofs with 16 ridge stacks. Plinth, coped gables to dormers. Single storey; 12x6 windows. C plan, around 3 sides of a sunken garden. Symmetrical main range has a central gabled entrance with a moulded brick round-arched doorway, and above it, an inscribed square datestone. On either side, a gabled dormer with a canted 3-light mullioned bay window. Beyond, two 3-light mullioned windows flanked by single segment-headed doorways. Beyond again, a pair of gables with 3-light bay windows. Beyond, a further doorway and a 3-light mullioned window. At the angles, a splayed wall with a round-arched doorway. Side wings have a central pair of dormers with canted bay windows, flanked by single doors and beyond, single 3-light windows. Cross wings at the outer ends have a central elliptical-arched doorway with datestone under stepped hoodmould, flanked by single dormers with bay windows. The terrace in front of the houses has a retaining wall with pierced balustrade. At the inner angles, steps with square piers and ball finials. Outside, an attached brick boundary wall with chamfered brick balusters and stone coping, with square brick piers and ball finials. Central gateway with a pair of larger square piers with stone caps and ball finials.

Listing NGR: TA1242031077