Newland Homes Captain Allison House

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side) Newland Homes, Captain Allison House

GV II

Formerly known as: Sanatorium at Newland Homes COTTINGHAM ROAD. Former orphanage by WH Bingley of Hull, now old people's home. 1898, with late C20 alterations and additions. Paid for by Joseph Rank.

MATERIALS: yellow brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs. Windows are mainly plain sashes.

EXTERIOR: main block, to right, single-storey; eight-window range. Projecting hipped central block with flanking wings. two external side wall and two ridge stacks, all coped. In the centre, a large square gabled bay window with two sashes and above them, arecessed inscribed panel with date. On either side, single windows. Beyond, on either side, a pair of gabled through-eaves dormers with single sashes. The left pair is covered by a late C20 lean-to porch. The right pair is partly covered by a flat-roofed single-storey addition. To left and set back, a bungalow, attached to the main building by a corridor. Single massive ridge stack. Central through-eaves gabled porch with half-glazed door under semicircular hood on brackets. On either side, a square bay window with a three-light transomed wooden casement.

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: TA0824031666