Hebburn, Albert Street, The Albert Public House

Public house. Dated 1908. By J W Wardle of South Shields for Messrs John Rowell
and Sons Ltd. Yellow and brown faience, brick, roof of welsh slate. Free baroque
style. 2-storeys, 5 bays. Faience ground floor has central double door with
round fanlight recessed between adapted Ionic pilasters supporting an open,
broken segmental pediment which encloses a cartouche over the keystone; transomed
and mullioned windows of 2 and 3 lights to left of door, of 3 and 3 to right,
have cill aprons to lugged architraves, elliptical heads and large keystones,
and are flanked by Ionic pilasters, those between first and 2nd, and 3rd and
4th windows supporting open pediments containing cartouches; 6-bay return in
similar style; continuous cornice supported at the recessed corner by a large
cartouche with fruit and flower decoration. Fascia with name panels and cornice
at first floor cill level. First floor : Flemish bond brick; 2 sash windows
over central door, 2 to right, blank wall to left; 4 and a double sash in the
return. Roof has 2 gables central over the pairs of ground floor windows; return
has one; all have stone coping, and bands, cartouches and corniced chimneys
of yellow terracotta. Some windows have art nouveau glass. A rebuilding of
an earlier public house. LISTED GRADE 2