115 King Street

This building was added to the South Tyneside local list in 2023. The local list description reads:
'115 King Street (numbered 83 in the middle of the 19th century) was the draper's shop of Robert Chapman, JP, from 1836 to 1886.
In 1883 Robert expanded his King Street shop to the design of the very well-known South Shields architect J.H. Morton. Additional storeys were added in a rather attractive Dutch style. In a roundel on the gable Robert added the inscription 'Rebuilt RC 1883'.
The building is mentioned on page 641 of 'The Buildings of England, County Durham, by Martin Roberts, Nikolaus Pevsner and Elizabeth Williamson', Yale University Press, 2021 as follows: On the south side of King Street, 'Nos. 113-115, with brick and stone upper floors with a curved bay under a Dutch gable, dated 1883'.
Morton was responsible for many excellent buildings in and around South Shields.
To provide further information, Robert Chapman was a well-known figure in Victorian South Shields. He was a Borough Councillor, Mayor's Auditor, External Auditor to the South Shields Gas Company, Vice-President of the South Shields Commercial Building Society, a Select Vestryman of St Hilda's Church and a Justice of the Peace.'