Westoe, Westoe Village, Norman Hurst

HER Number:
11790

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Westoe, Westoe Village, Norman Hurst

Place:
Westoe

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
House

Site Type: Specific:
Detached House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Baroque revival style. Spacially complex and brimming with decoration. Was called Tivoli Villa until 1930. An eroded coat of arms gives a construction date of 1889. Built in red-brown brick with a huge Baroque oeil-de-boeuf window , Arts & Crafts style chimneys, shaped gables, original timber Victorian conservatory and lead covered ogee-roofed oriel window. It retains its timber sash windows but has modern Velux-style rooflights. "One of the conservation area's most intiguing secrets" {1}.

Easting:
3727

Northing:
6612

Grid Reference:
NZ37276612

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham