12-13 Westoe Village, Westoe Towers and Sunnylea

HER Number

11782

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

12-13 Westoe Village, Westoe Towers and Sunnylea

Place

Westoe

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

House

Site Type: Specific

Semi Detached House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Red brick with red plain tiled roof, deep bracketed eaves and tall chimney stack. Arts & Crafts influence - richly moulded bay window, decorative timber porch on four columns, original front door and fanlight, original decorative valve water hoppers and pipes, original window frames, stone mouldings. Westoe Towers has modern extensions, rendering, uPVC windows, large rooflights, loss of green garden and a boarded up belvedere (from when it was in institutional use) which has lost character. It is now back in residential use. Westoe Grange care home has been built in the back garden.

Easting

437090

Northing

566000

Grid Reference

NZ437090566000

Sources

North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham