Jarrow Hall, Church Bank

HER Number:
8070

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow Hall, Church Bank

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Country House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This house was listed Grade II in 1949 with the following description: 'House, now a Museum. 1785 for Simon Temple coal owner. Brick with stone dressings; roof of Welsh slate. Simple block with set back wing at north. 2 storeys; 3 bays by 5 to the main house and one to the set-back. West elevation : central 6-panelled door under decorated round fanlight in panelled recess and dentilled open pedimented Tuscan doorcase; cill bands to sash windows with glazing bars and flat stone lintels; eaves cornice. South elevation : 5 windows; central 3 in semicircular bay having pointed parapet with rendered coping; cill bands, stone lintels, those over the central 3 windows of later date, as are the fixed light windows; other windows sashes with glazing bars. Hipped roof, 2 transverse corniced ridge chimneys of brick; half-hipped roof to wing. Interior : cornices to lower and upper halls; 6-panelled doors in panelled reveals having reeded architraves; fluted pilasters carrying hall arches; open well staircase with decorated tread ends, 2 plain square balusters to each tread, inlaid handrail with spiral curtail; Venetian landing window with Gothick tracery and low relief heads either side of round-headed window.' LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
433780

Northing:
565400

Grid Reference:
NZ433780565400

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 1/83; South Tyneside Council, September 2006, St. Paul's Conservation Area Character Appraisal; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1185882