Newland Homes East Lodge

Newland Homes East Lodge is a lodge for orphan homes designed by W.H. Bingley of Hull, built around 1896. The building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs topped with a large coped ridge stack.

The exterior includes a plinth, a ground-floor lintel band, and a first-floor sill band, along with a traceried bargeboard with a collar on the facing gable. The lodge is two storeys high and has a two-window range with a cross plan. The windows are plain sashes, with the facing gable featuring a single window above a central sash flanked by angled corner recesses that have shaped stone brackets; the right bracket includes a small sash. The right return has two gable through-eaves dormers, each with a single sash, and below are two single-storey hipped projections, the left one having two small sashes. The left return features a projecting gable on the right with a sash above and a triangular two-light bay window below. In the return angle to the left, there is a hipped porch with a half-glazed door and a small sash above it.

Historically, this complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was constructed between 1895 and 1902 by the Port of Hull Society, which was endowed by various benefactors. The Port of Hull Society for the Religious Instruction of Seamen was established in 1821 and founded the Sailors’ Orphans Institution in 1836. However, 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 been moved to the new complex on Cottingham Road.