Model Dwellings

Model dwellings, now flats, built in 1862 with later 20th-century alterations. The buildings were designed by Henry M. Eyton of London, assisted by Mr Kerby, an architect of Hull. They were funded by Miss Turner of Hull and built for the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes. The construction is primarily white brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, topped with hipped slate roofs and four side wall and five ridge stacks, all coped. Brick string courses and machicolated eaves are present. The layout is a U-plan configuration around a central courtyard, incorporating 16x19 windows. The windows are segment-headed plain sashes, some with more pronounced arches. Each front features a three-storey central block of seven windows, flanked by two-storey wings.

The east front has three single windows in the centre flanked by paired windows, with three gabled through eaves dormers above, each containing paired windows and a central brick mullion. The ground floor doorway has a polychrome head, flanked by single windows and then paired windows. The right wing has a paired window followed by three individual windows; the ground floor has two paired windows then two single windows. The left wing features two single windows followed by a paired window; the ground floor has two single windows then a pair. An angled corner has a single window on each floor.

The south front, facing St Luke's Street, replicates the central block design with a ground floor doorway flanked by single windows and then paired windows. The right wing has a single window between pairs, another single window to the left, and the ground floor has two flanked by paired windows, plus an additional single window. The left wing has a central window flanked by pairs, with single windows beyond; the ground floor mirrors the right wing’s layout, with two single windows flanked by pairs, then a single window to the left and two to the right.

At the rear, a railed first-floor access gallery is supported by cast-iron posts with arch braces. The central blocks have a two-storey segment-headed recess containing a stairway and gallery.