Tynemouth, Preston Road, Union Workhouse

HER Number:
11780

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Tynemouth, Preston Road, Union Workhouse

Place:
Tynemouth

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Workhouse

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Union workhouse, built 1836. Rebuilt 1884-8 to designs by Henry Gibson.

Easting:
3538

Northing:
6889

Grid Reference:
NZ35386889

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 208