St Nicholas School

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TA 03 SE, 680-1/4/106

KINGSTON UPON HULL, COTTINGHAM ROAD (North side), St Nicholas School

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School. Formerly part of the Newland Homes of the Sailors' Families' Society. Designed by W. H. Bingley of Hull. c1897, with late C20 alterations and additions. Yellow brick with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped slate roofs, the main roof topped with a square clock tower with pyramidal roof and finial. Two side wall stacks. Renaissance Revival style. Plinth, string courses, coped gables. Two storeys; 3-window range. Cross plan with hipped cross wings. Main south gable has two canted buttresses rising above the gable and topped with pinnacles. In the centre, a flat-headed 4-light lancet with panel tracery and double transoms. Above, a square panel with the name of the school and above again, a triple breather. On either side, a transomed plain sash with label mould. Below, a projecting single-storey range linking the canted projecting bays of the side wings, with two buttresses and coped parapet. 4 small windows flanked by single doors, that to the left larger. The canted projections have each three single lancets with cusped heads. At the rear, late C20 additions in a similar style, with canted hipped projection to east. This complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was built c1897 by the Port of Hull Society's Sailors' Orphan Homes and endowed by various benefactors whose names are attached to the buildings. See other entries for former Newland Homes.

Listing NGR: TA0828931661