Wallsend, High Street East, Town Hall

HER Number:
7366

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, High Street East, Town Hall

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Meeting Hall

Site Type: Specific:
Town Hall

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Town Hall, now Borough offices. 1907-8 by E.F.W. Liddle and P.L. Brown for the Borough of Wallsend. Bright red brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with copper corner turret roof. Baroque style. Two storeys. Round-headed double door and balustraded balcony to first floor window under arch. Borough arms in panel above. Round-headed mullioned and transomed windows in ground floor. Sash windows first floor with Ionic columns and balustraded parapet. Clock in right pavilion. Opened 16th September 1908 and cost £15,657. The council chamber is lit by nine stained glass windows representing local heraldic devices. The clock was presented by first Mayor, William Boyd.

Easting:
3043

Northing:
6649

Grid Reference:
NZ30436649

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/155; W. Richardson, 1923, History of Parish of Wallsend, pp 393-5