Tranby Croft is a large Grade II

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Victorian

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and estate at

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, near

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in the

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, England. The house is now the

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, independent day school, Tranby School. The house is built in white brick with ashlar dressing in three storeys with a nine bay frontage.

History

Tranby Croft was built by Hull shipowner Arthur Wilson (1836–1909). In 1890 the house was the location of the

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, which involved accusations that

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, had cheated at illegal card games attended by

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. Arthur was succeeded by his son Captain Arthur Stanley Wilson (1868–1938), who was the Conservative MP for Holderness. The latter married Alice Cecile Agnes Filmer and was succeeded in turn by his son Arthur Thomas Wilson, who adopted the additional surname of Filmer. Hull High School for Girls moved to Tranby Croft after the Second World War and

Hull Grammar School Hull Grammar School was a secondary school in Hull, England, founded around 1330 and endowed in 1479 by the prelate John Alcock. In 1988, as part of a restructure by the Local Education Authority, the site was renamed William Gee School. Meanwh ...

moved to Tranby Croft from its Cottingham site in 2005. The two schools merged into

Hull Collegiate School Tranby School, commonly known in the area as the 'Collegiate' or 'Tranby Croft', is a co-educational independent day school in Anlaby, near Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 2005 as a result of a merger of two o ...

, which in 2021 was renamed Tranby.

References

External links

Hull Collegiate School
{{Coord, 53.7400, -0.4482, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Country houses in the East Riding of Yorkshire Grade II listed buildings in the East Riding of Yorkshire