Felling, Shields Road, garden walls and summerhouse
Felling, Shields Road, garden walls and summerhouse
HER Number
8179
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Felling, Shields Road, garden walls and summerhouse
Place
Felling
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Site Type: Broad
Garden Building
Site Type: Specific
Summerhouse
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Garden walls with attached summerhouse/gazebo, formerly within the grounds
of Nether Heworth Hall, now the Heworth Constitutional Club (qv). Late C18
or early C19. Local red brick in English garden wall bond, 3 + 1 for the
gazebo, 4 + 1 for the garden walls. 2 external walls of gazebo of roughly-
coursed rubble; garden walls faced in rubble and with flat stone coping.
L - plan walls running west and south from the gazebo in the north-east corner;
and a shorter length running south from north-west corner. Wall about 3.5
metres high on east side, lower and missing coping elsewhere. Small square
gazebo has sloped battlemented parapet rising to a peak at north-east corner.
Windows on 3 sides on first floor and door on south side up external steps
with arched recess beneath. Door and window on ground floor of internal
walls. All joinery missing. Roofless and floorless at time of listing but
with remains of a small fireplace on upper floor. LISTED GRADE 2
of Nether Heworth Hall, now the Heworth Constitutional Club (qv). Late C18
or early C19. Local red brick in English garden wall bond, 3 + 1 for the
gazebo, 4 + 1 for the garden walls. 2 external walls of gazebo of roughly-
coursed rubble; garden walls faced in rubble and with flat stone coping.
L - plan walls running west and south from the gazebo in the north-east corner;
and a shorter length running south from north-west corner. Wall about 3.5
metres high on east side, lower and missing coping elsewhere. Small square
gazebo has sloped battlemented parapet rising to a peak at north-east corner.
Windows on 3 sides on first floor and door on south side up external steps
with arched recess beneath. Door and window on ground floor of internal
walls. All joinery missing. Roofless and floorless at time of listing but
with remains of a small fireplace on upper floor. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
428840
Northing
562120
Grid Reference
NZ428840562120
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 6/136