Newland Homes Captain Allison House

Captain Allison House, formerly known as the Sanatorium at Newland Homes, is a former orphanage designed by W.H. Bingley of Hull, built in 1898. It now serves as an old people's home and was funded by Joseph Rank. The building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs. Most of the windows are plain sashes.

The main block is single-storey with eight windows and includes a projecting hipped central block flanked by wings. It has two external side wall stacks and two ridge stacks, all of which are coped. The center features a large square gabled bay window with two sashes, above which is a recessed panel inscribed with the date. There are single windows on either side, and beyond these, pairs of gabled through-eaves dormers with single sashes. The left pair has a late 20th-century lean-to porch, while the right pair is partly covered by a flat-roofed single-storey addition. To the left, there is a bungalow connected to the main building by a corridor, which has a single massive ridge stack. The central through-eaves gabled porch has a half-glazed door beneath a semicircular hood on brackets, with square bay windows on either side featuring three-light transomed wooden casements.

The complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was constructed between 1895 and 1902 by the Port of Hull Society, which was established in 1821. The society founded the Sailors’ Orphans Institution in 1836, but it did not have a permanent home until the Park Street orphanage was built in 1868-1869, largely funded by Sir Titus Salt of Saltaire. The Park Street orphanage was sold in 1897, by which time all the children had moved to the new complex on Cottingham Road.