St Nicholas School

St Nicholas School is a building that was formerly part of the Newland Homes of the Sailors' Families' Society. It was designed by W. H. Bingley of Hull around 1897 and has undergone some alterations and additions in the late 20th century. The school is constructed from yellow brick with ashlar dressings and features gabled and hipped slate roofs. The main roof is topped with a square clock tower that has a pyramidal roof and a finial, along with two side wall stacks.

The building is designed in the Renaissance Revival style and includes a plinth, string courses, and coped gables. It is two storeys high and has a three-window range, with a cross plan and hipped cross wings. The main south gable features two canted buttresses that rise above the gable and are topped with pinnacles. In the center, there is a flat-headed four-light lancet window with panel tracery and double transoms. Above this, a square panel displays the name of the school, and above that, there is a triple breather. On either side of the central window, there are transomed plain sash windows with label moulds.

Below the main gable, a projecting single-storey range links the canted projecting bays of the side wings. This range has two buttresses and a coped parapet, with four small windows flanked by single doors, the left door being larger. Each of the canted projections has three single lancets with cusped heads. At the rear, there are late 20th-century additions that are styled similarly, including a canted hipped projection to the east. This complex of orphan homes and ancillary buildings was built around 1897 by the Port of Hull Society's Sailors' Orphan Homes and was endowed by various benefactors whose names are associated with the buildings.