Newlands Homes Stratten Hall And Adjoining Board Room Block

Newlands Homes, Stratten Hall, and the adjoining Board Room Block are an assembly hall and associated block constructed in 1901, with late 19th-century origins, as part of the Newlands Homes complex designed by WH Bingley of Hull. The buildings were commissioned by the Port of Hull Society.

The hall is built of yellow brick with ashlar dressings, surmounted by gabled and hipped slate roofs, and features two ridge and two gable stacks. The main range has a hipped roof, topped with a square, louvred bell turret with a leaded ogee dome and finial. A plinth and string courses mark the gables. The main range has a buttressed facade with a central double doorway flanked by buttresses and an inscribed lintel. To either side of the entrance are stone mullioned cross casement windows, and further windows are positioned symmetrically on both sides. The cross wings have gables with buttresses rising above the gable line, topped with pinnacles. A central three-light cross-mullioned window is present, with a sill band and label mould. A square inscribed panel is set into the west gable peak. The adjoining two-storey block has a nine-window range with mostly plain sash windows. A plinth is present, with an incomplete first-floor band. A projecting off-centre gable showcases an elaborate traceried bargeboard with brackets to the collar, featuring two windows, followed by two smaller windows. A gabled through-eaves dormer with a single window is located on one side, while a larger dormer with two windows is on the other. The ground floor projection has two windows, followed by a single window, then a carriage opening with a wooden lintel. A door is situated under a lean-to hood, adjacent to a hipped square bay window with two sashes, followed by three further windows. The rear of the complex includes a two-story wing and a single-story cross range enclosing a yard.

The complex served as orphan homes and associated buildings for the Port of Hull Society, which was founded in 1821 and had previously established the Sailors’ Orphans Institution in 1836. The earlier orphanage, built in 1868-9 and largely funded by Sir Titus Salt, was sold in 1897, and the children were relocated to the new complex on Cottingham Road between 1895 and 1902.