Newland Homes Whitby and Hartlepool House

Newland Homes, Whitby and Hartlepool House is a former orphanage designed by WH Bingley of Hull, dated 1902. It was funded by benefactors from Whitby and Hartlepool. The building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs with three coped ridge stacks.

The exterior includes a plinth, a ground-floor lintel band, a first-floor sill band, and traceried bargeboards on the main gables. It is two storeys tall with an eight-window range. The windows are plain sashes, mostly with stone transoms. The hipped projecting centre has two windows on each floor, with larger ground-floor windows divided by a gabled brick buttress. On either side, there is a recess with a plain window above and below, and a half-glazed door with an inscribed datestone and crest above it. The flanking wings each have two windows, and below them, there is a hipped square brick bay window with two sashes.

This complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was constructed between 1895 and 1902 by the Port of Hull Society, which 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 1868-1869, 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.