Swale House And Boundary Wall, University Of Hull

Swale House, now used as offices, is located on Cottingham Road at the University of Hull. Built between 1909 and 1913 by the architectural firm Crouch, Butler & Savage, the house features red brick construction and a hipped plain tile roof with two large coped ridge stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a three-window range. The central window is a wooden two-light casement, flanked by two similar four-light windows. Above, there are three hipped dormers, each with two-light casements. The entrance includes a wooden doorcase with pilasters and shaped brackets supporting a segmental hood, leading to a fielded six-panel door. On either side of the entrance, there are canted brick bay windows with parapets and twelve-pane sashes.

The boundary wall consists of a low brick structure approximately 100 meters long, featuring gabled ashlar coping and intermediate piers with stepped ashlar caps. At the right end of the wall, there is a gateway with concave walls and square piers that have moulded caps and coping. Additionally, there is a pair of square brick gatepiers with rebated corners and flat ashlar caps, along with a wooden gate and a corniced canopy.