Howard Street, Poor Laws Guardians' Hall

HER Number

7287

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Howard Street, Poor Laws Guardians' Hall

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad

Cottage Home

Site Type: Specific

Cottage Home

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Poor Laws Guardians' Hall, now Borough offices. 1837 by Green for Tynemouth Poor Law Union. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with rendered chimney. Elizabethan style. Two storeys. Double door with mullioned overlight, first floor cross window. Right return to Saville Street in similar style with ball finial on gable. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

435680

Northing

568390

Grid Reference

NZ435680568390

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/87; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 351; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527