Nelson Street, Borough Housing Department 1
Nelson Street, Borough Housing Department 1
HER Number
8311
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Nelson Street, Borough Housing Department 1
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
House
Site Type: Specific
Villa
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Early C19 four square villa. Local pinkish brick with stone dressings. Low
pitched buffed Welsh slate roof. Deep eaves with paired stone brackets projecting
from a frieze which rests on the stone capitals of brick pilaster bay divisions.
Two storeys, four narrower by three wider bays. Stone lintels and cills to sash
windows with glazing bars. Central entrance on South front has plain stone
classical doorcase with square columns.
This mansion housed Gateshead's dispensary (which was founded in 1832 following a cholera outbreak in 1831) from 1855 to 1946. LISTED GRADE 2
pitched buffed Welsh slate roof. Deep eaves with paired stone brackets projecting
from a frieze which rests on the stone capitals of brick pilaster bay divisions.
Two storeys, four narrower by three wider bays. Stone lintels and cills to sash
windows with glazing bars. Central entrance on South front has plain stone
classical doorcase with square columns.
This mansion housed Gateshead's dispensary (which was founded in 1832 following a cholera outbreak in 1831) from 1855 to 1946. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
425450
Northing
563320
Grid Reference
NZ425450563320
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5/28; S. Taylor and D. Lovie, 2004, Gateshead - Architecture in a Changing English Urban Landscape, pp 20-21