Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA03SE COTTINGHAM ROAD
680-1/4/122 (North side (off))
Newland School for Girls

II

Girls' school. Dated 1914. By J H Hirst, City Architect. Red
brick with ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with 2
brick ridge stacks. Neo-Georgian style. 2 storeys and 2
storeys plus attics; 36 window range, arranged 9:9:3:9:6.
Central block with flanking wings and end pavilions. F-plan.
Central block and pavilions have rusticated quoins, pilasters,
moulded cornices and pierced balustrades with central
pediments.
Central block has three 3-light stone mullioned cross
casements, the central one flanked by enriched pilasters.
Above it, open pediment with a Diocletian window with
keystone. Below, central pedimented portico with paired Doric
columns and moulded round-arched entrance with keystone.
Panelled recess with panelled double doors and fanlight.
Flanking wings have moulded wooden eaves. 9 wooden framed
cross casements with glazing bars, the ground-floor windows
with double keystones. Above again, 2 hipped louvred roof
ventilators.
Larger left pavilion has 9 wooden framed cross casements, the
central 3 flanked by enriched pilasters. Above again, pediment
with Diocletian window and keystone. Central ground-floor
windows have multiple keystones, and the flanking windows,
double keystones.
Right pavilion has similar fenestration with 6 windows, and
between the central ground-floor windows, a cartouche. Right
return has a central glazing bar sash. On either side, a
3-light glazing bar casement with an elongated keystone rising
into a segmental pediment forming part of the eaves cornice.
Beyond, single casements. Below, a lean-to conservatory, 10
bays, with glazing bars and a glazed door.
West end has to left a 2-storey Library, 5 bays, with a hipped
slate roof topped with a domed bell turret with coved sides
and round-arched openings, and on either side, 2 hipped
louvred ventilators. 3 canted stone oriel windows with stone
mullioned cross casements with coats of arms below them,
flanked by single cross casements. Below, a round-arched
arcade, 3 bays, with glazing bar Diocletian windows, the
central bay with a half-glazed door and sidelights. Beyond,
single round windows, the right one with 2 small casements
below it. East side, to courtyard, has similar fenestration.
To right, a triple bay with 3 wooden cross casements on each
floor. To right again, an entrance bay with a canted 2-storey
porch topped with a balustrades, with a first floor cross
casement and below, a door with overlight, flanked by single
small casements, and above them, single smaller casements. At
the rear, a hipped 2-storey building, 2x2 windows.
Main range rear elevation has to west has 4 shouldered gables,
each with a 3-light stone mullioned window above and a
Diocletian window below, the left one altered to form a
doorway. To east, 3 gables with similar fenestration.
Projecting off-centre Hall has hipped roof with turret and
ventilators similar to the Library. Cornice and moulded coped
parapet, external side wall stack. On either side, 5 tall
3-light stone mullioned cross casements with coats of arms
between them. Below, 4 Diocletian windows, and to north, a
3-light stone mullioned window and a doorway.
INTERIOR has a central lobby with a moulded beamed ceiling and
a panelled round-arched 5-bay arcade on each side. Entrance
side has a central pair of doors with lattice glazing bars,
flanked by two 2-panel doors, all with glazing bar fanlights.
Opposite side has a central branching stone staircase with
balustrade, leading up, flanked by single flights leading
down. Beyond, single pairs of glazed doors doors with
fanlights. At either end, a round-arched window and a similar
doors with double doors to a spinal corridor with segmental
arches and green glazed tile dado.
Although designed as a school, this building was used as a
military hospital until 1919.
(Newland High School - The First 75 Years: Hull: 1982-).

Listing NGR: TA0743631886

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Newland School for Girls at Wikipedia
• Newland School for Girls official website
• Wikidata Q7018319

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