Newland Homes James Reckitt House

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side) Newland Homes, James Reckitt House

GV II

Infants home. Dated 1896. Paid for by Sir James Reckitt.

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

EXTERIOR: plinth, ground-floor lintel band, first-floor sill band, bracketed eaves, traceried bargeboards with collars to main gable. Two storeys; six window range. Windows are plain sashes. Projecting centre has a pair of sashes with a shaped, moulded lintel and inscribed datestone with the name of the benefactor. Each return angle has a single sash. Beyond, on either side, two sashes. Below, a hipped square bay window with two sashes, flanked by single smaller sashes. To right, in the return angle, a hipped porch canopy on turned wooden posts, covering a half-glazed door and a single sash. To its right, a single sash. To left, a single sash, the a triangular hipped bay window with 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: TA0826531535