Description

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TA 0928 NW,
680-1/21/257

KINGSTON UPON HULL,
MIDLAND STREET (West side),
Model Dwellings (Also known as: Turner Court MIDLAND STREET)

II

Model dwellings, now flats. 1862, with late C20 alterations.
Architect Henry M. Eyton of London assisted by Mr Kerby, architect of Hull.
The Model dwellings were paid for by Miss Turner of Hull.
Built for the Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes.
White brick with red
brick and ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs with four side
wall and five ridge stacks, all coped. Brick string courses and
machicolated eaves. U-plan around a central courtyard. 16x19
windows. Windows are segment-headed plain sashes, some with
more pronounced arches. Each front has a 3-storey central
block, seven windows, with 2-storey wings.
East front has in the centre three single windows flanked by
paired windows, and above, three gabled through eaves dormers with
paired windows and central brick mullions. Below, central
doorway with polychrome head, flanked by two single windows,
then paired windows. Right wing has a paired window, then to
right, three windows. Below, two paired windows, then two single
windows. Left wing has two single windows, then to right, a
paired window. Below, two single windows, then a pair. Angled
corner has a single window on each floor.
South front, to St Luke's Street, has a similar central block
with a central ground floor doorway flanked by single windows,
then by paired windows. Right wing has single window flanked
by pairs, and to left another single window. Below, two single
windows flanked by pairs, and to left an additional single
window. Left wing has a central window flanked by pairs and
beyond, single windows. Below, two single windows flanked by
pairs, then a single window to left and two single windows to
right.
At the rear, a railed first floor access gallery on cast-iron
posts with arch braces. The central blocks have a 2-storey
segment-headed recess containing a stairway and gallery.

Listing NGR: TA0911228576

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26492145

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