Field House, Stephenson Street
Field House, Stephenson Street
HER Number
7305
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Field House, Stephenson Street
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
House
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Pair of houses, now five dwellings. Circa 1800. English bond brick with roll-moulded plinth, ashlar dressings and quoins, sandstone rubble left return, Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Three storeys. Five renewed doors. Open pedimented stone Tuscan doorcase. Wedge stone lintels to renewed sash windows. Renewed Venetian window in left return. Rear has keystoned lintels. Ashlar-corniced brick ridge chimneys. "Two modern new built houses with 170 yards of garden in front situated at the head of Stephenson Street" advertised for sale in the Newcastle Courant on 6 May 1804.LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
435600
Northing
568670
Grid Reference
NZ435600568670
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 12/123