Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, joiners shop

HER Number:
15741

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Hebburn, Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, joiners shop

Place:
Hebburn

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Timber Product Site

Site Type: Specific:
Joiners Shop

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Built before 1897 when it appears on the Ordnance Survey map. Brick-built in mottled machine-made red brick. It is twenty bays long with a double pitch roof, and built in a simple functional style. The scars of an external staircase to a mezzanine are visible on the south façade, and of a pitched roof over a third floor window on the east façade. The joiners shop is grander in style and scale than the contemporary rigging loft. The joiners shop has a square clock tower which projects above the southern end of the building and has a simple moulded stone string course. The clocks are damaged and no longer work. A panel in the south façade is pierced by several rows of holes for electric cables, which ran through them to the former platers' shed to the south. In plans of the 1950s held by Cammell Laird, the joiners shop is labelled as a 'saw mill (three floors)'. Recorded by Lancaster University Archaeological Unit in June 2000.

Easting:
3050

Northing:
6553

Grid Reference:
NZ30506553

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Lancaster University Archaeological Unit, June 2000, Former Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard, Tyne and Wear, Archaeological Assessment