Newland Homes William Richardson House

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KINGSTON UPON HULL COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side) Newland Homes, William Richardson House

GV II

Former orphanage by WH Bingley of Hull.1896. Paid for by William Richardson.

MATERIAL: yellow brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof with single ridge and two gable stacks.

EXTERIOR: plinth, ground-floor lintel band, first-floor sill band, traceried bargeboards with collars to centre gable. Two storeys; six window range. Windows are mainly plain sashes. Projecting centre has two sashes with a shaped datestone and lintel above, with the name of the building. Left return angle has a single sash. Beyond, on either side, two sashes. Below, central hipped square bay window with two sashes, and on either side, a smaller sash. To left, in the return angle, a hipped porch canopy on wooden posts, covering a single window and door. To its left, a single sash. To right, two sashes. At the rear, two gabled wings.

HISTORY: this complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was built 1895-1902 by the Port of Hull Society and endowed by various benefactors whose names are attached to the various buildings. The Port of Hull Society for the Religious Instruction of Seamen 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 1868-9, largely funded by (Sir) Titus Salt of Saltaire. The orphanage in Park Street was sold in 1897, by which time all the children were accommodated in the new complex on Cottingham Road.

Listing NGR: TA0837431530