Preston Road, Union Workhouse

HER Number

11780

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Preston Road, Union Workhouse

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad

Workhouse

Site Type: Specific

Workhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Union workhouse, built 1836. Rebuilt 1884-8 to designs by Henry Gibson.

Easting

435380

Northing

568890

Grid Reference

NZ435380568890

Sources

Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 208