Ferens Haven And Boundary Wall

Ferens Haven is a group of almshouses, now serving as old people's homes, along with their boundary walls. The buildings were constructed in 1911 by the architects Runton & Barry and were funded by the Right Honourable T.R. Ferens. They are made of brick with ashlar and brick dressings, featuring plain tile roofs and 16 ridge stacks. The structure has a plinth and coped gables on the dormers.

The design is single-storey and arranged in a C shape around three sides of a sunken garden. The main range is symmetrical, with a central gabled entrance that includes a moulded brick round-arched doorway and an inscribed square datestone above. On either side of the entrance are gabled dormers with canted 3-light mullioned bay windows. Further along, there are two 3-light mullioned windows, each flanked by single segment-headed doorways. This is followed by a pair of gables with additional 3-light bay windows, another doorway, and another 3-light mullioned window. The corners feature splayed walls with round-arched doorways.

The side wings contain a central pair of dormers with canted bay windows, flanked by single doors and followed by single 3-light windows. The cross wings at the outer ends have a central elliptical-arched doorway with a datestone beneath a stepped hoodmould, flanked by single dormers with bay windows.

In front of the houses, there is a terrace with a retaining wall that has a pierced balustrade. At the inner angles of the terrace, there are steps with square piers topped with ball finials. Surrounding the property is an attached brick boundary wall featuring chamfered brick balusters and stone coping, with square brick piers and ball finials. The central gateway includes a pair of larger square piers with stone caps and ball finials.