Needler Hall

Needler Hall was a hall of residence of the University of Hull, located on Northgate in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Originally a large private house built in the 18th century, it was acquired, along with Thwaite Hall, by the newly established university college in 1928. It was named in honour of Frederick Needler, of Needler's , who was a major benefactor of the university college.

The oldest part of Needler Hall was formerly known as Northfields House and was built soon after 1780, it was extended with the construction of a south-facing wing around 1820. The house served as a private asylum for the insane in the early nineteenth century. It was a stuccoed building, decorated with pilasters and wreathes, and it had a Tuscan porch. This columned south-facing porch was demolished in the early 1980s after becoming structurally unsafe. Soon after being acquired by the then university college a two storey range of student accommodation, later known as the "Old Wing," was constructed running south-westward from the original building. Constructed in brick and rendered brick, it had a pitched slate roof. Following this extension the hall could accommodate 60 students. In 1962–64 the architect Trevor Dannatt RA added a new range of accommodation plus a refectory and kitchens to the residence. Known as the "New Wing," it was not physically connected to the earlier buildings; it was largely of brick construction with flat roofs, and the windows were sunk in vertical channels with concrete sills and lintels. The original house was for most of its life stuccoed and painted white, however, it was hacked back to bare brick and stone in the 1990s.

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