Harton Cemetery, lodge
Harton Cemetery, lodge
HER Number
8140
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Harton Cemetery, lodge
Place
Harton
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Lodge
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
1888-91. Henry Grieves, Architect.
The lodge is placed immediately to the south of the entrance gates. A picturesque house in the domestic tudor manner. Built of coursed rubble with ashlar for quoins, window details, etc. Two storeys, L shaped plan, with gabled slate roofs.
Gables have heavy barge boards and their upper parts are half timbered.
The east gable has a ground floor bay window with traceried heads, the first floor
is tile hung. The north bay has a 2-storey bay window.
The re-entrant angle has a square tower rising to above the eaves line where a concave section diminishes the square to support a pretty octagonal cupola with an ogee dome. Nice tall stone tudor chimney stacks.
The west and south elevations plain and not interesting.
The lodge contains, the board room, superintendent's house and office. LISTED GRADE 2
The lodge is placed immediately to the south of the entrance gates. A picturesque house in the domestic tudor manner. Built of coursed rubble with ashlar for quoins, window details, etc. Two storeys, L shaped plan, with gabled slate roofs.
Gables have heavy barge boards and their upper parts are half timbered.
The east gable has a ground floor bay window with traceried heads, the first floor
is tile hung. The north bay has a 2-storey bay window.
The re-entrant angle has a square tower rising to above the eaves line where a concave section diminishes the square to support a pretty octagonal cupola with an ogee dome. Nice tall stone tudor chimney stacks.
The west and south elevations plain and not interesting.
The lodge contains, the board room, superintendent's house and office. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
437390
Northing
565570
Grid Reference
NZ437390565570
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 11/18; Wardman Brown Architects, 2018, Heritage Statement