Broad Chare, Trinity House, almshouses

HER Number:
9014

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Broad Chare, Trinity House, almshouses

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Almshouse

Site Type: Specific:
Almshouse

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Almshouses, now storage rooms and house above. Dated 1787 on plaque. English garden wall bond brick with painted ground floor and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. 5-panelled doors with 3-paned overlights (except for radial glazing bars to that on right) in bays 2, 3 and 5. Wedge stone lintels to sashes with glazing bars; projecting stone sills on first floor; ground floor sill band. Central plaque commemorates building in 1787 and names officers for that year. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting:
425360

Northing:
564000

Grid Reference:
NZ425360564000

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 24/127; TWM, 2009, Summoner's Flat, Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne - Historic Building Recording