Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA0930 NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
680-1/15/263 (North side)
22/03/88 Northumberland Almshouses
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE
The Almshouses)

II

Almshouses. 1884-87. By Smith & Brodrick. For the Hull Charity
Trustees, (an amalgamation of 4 long-established charities),
relocated on a new site.
Red brick, roughcast and sham timber-framing, with ashlar
dressings and renewed plain tile roofs, gabled and hipped.
Brick ridge stacks. Glazing bar casement windows, mostly
original.
Domestic Tudor Revival style. The plan is conventional, with
ranges of dwellings, mostly 2 storeys, around a grassed
quadrangle. In the centre of the south side, the gatehouse and
entrance tower, and opposite, the chapel. Single storey
service ranges run northwards from the rear corners.
The gatehouse has a Tudor arched carriage entrance with
wrought-iron gates and a brick vaulted passage. Above, a stone
oriel window. Behind this, a square clock tower with parapet.
Steep pitched swept roof carried on a round-arched wooden
arcade. On the right, a canted stair tower with a similar
roof.
Flanking the gatehouse to east and west, regular ranges of
gabled dwellings, 8 bays. At each end of the range, an angled
corner gable flanked by hexagonal turrets with swept roofs.
Returns have nearly symmetrical ranges with 6 gables.
Inside the quadrangle, the chapel on the north side has nave
and chancel under a continuous roof with a bellcote, vestry
and west porch. Perpendicular style windows. 3-light east
window, 2 single light south windows. Nave has four 2-light
windows to south, and 3 to north. West porch has a doorway
with a window over it. INTERIOR has arch-braced roofs with
wall shafts, and chancel arch with responds. Tiled reredos and
stained-glass east window. Double arch on north side. Nave has
2 arched doorways and traceried ashlar pulpit.
East of the chapel, a large gabled and hipped corner block, 2
and 3 storeys, 5 bays, on a grander scale than the other
dwellings. Angled north-east corner and timber framed rear
elevation. West of the chapel, a dwelling range, 4 bays, with
a double hipped projecting centre. East and west sides of the
quadrangle, 7 bays, are symmetrical, with a gabled central
projection flanked by hipped wings. On the south side, the
gatehouse is flanked by double gabled blocks, then a recessed
bay, then a hipped block.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Yorkshire East Riding:
London: 1961-: 284).

Listing NGR: TA0960430314

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580038

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)