2, 3 and 4 Dawson Square

HER Number

7318

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

2, 3 and 4 Dawson Square

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Domestic

Site Type: Broad

Terrace

Site Type: Specific

Terrace

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Three houses. Circa 1860. English bond brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Basement and 3 storeys. Doors and overlights recessed in flat Tuscan stone doorcases. Basement and ground floor canted bay windows. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills to sash windows. Cast iron balconies. Ashlar-coped end brick chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

436790

Northing

569300

Grid Reference

NZ436790569300

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 9/54; Roy Thompson, 2004, Thunder Underground - Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-65, p 136