No. 31, QUEENS ROAD

No. 31, Queens Road, was built as St Vincent’s Boys Home between 1908 and 1909, designed by Arthur Lowther of Hull. It was later converted into a home for the elderly in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, and has hipped and gabled slate roofs with two side wall stacks.

The main block on the right is four storeys high plus attics, with a five-window facade. Most windows are glazing bar cross casements. The facade includes a plinth and a band at second floor level, along with corner pilasters with red brick quoins. The projecting central section on the second floor has transomed windows, flanked by cross casements. Above this is a two-storey canted bay window on a shaped bracket, with roughcast panels and a crenellated parapet, topped with plain casements and flanked by pilasters. Directly above the bay window is a dormer with a three-light casement and flanking pilasters. A slightly projecting range features two-storey canted bay windows with three cross casements above and two-light casements below. A round-headed niche is positioned between the bay windows. The right return has a projecting central bay, three storeys high, with a window on each floor. A box dormer sits above this.

The left return includes a three-storey corridor connecting with a left wing. The first floor has a cross casement, with a similar window above, flanked by smaller transomed windows. A segment-headed double doorway is set within a segmental hood on brackets, with a barred fanlight. Plain two-light windows flank the doorway. The three-storey left wing, eight windows wide, has red brick quoins. At each corner, a diagonally placed projecting gabled bay has a single glazing bar window on each floor. The south-facing end has a cross casement on the upper floors and a pair of panelled, half-glazed doors with overlights at ground floor level. The left return (west side) displays regular fenestration, and a fire escape is located in the third bay.