Wallsend, Neptune Road, Thermal Syndicate Offices

HER Number:
4942

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Neptune Road, Thermal Syndicate Offices

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:
Building

Site Type: Specific:
Office

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
These offices, built in the Free Baroque style circa 1906 for Thermal Syndicate, are of brick with ashlar dressings and a graduated Lakeland slate roof. They are of 2 storeys and have 9 windows; there are gables over the entrance in bays 4 and 5 and over the 2 right end bays. The central gable over the door has a tall consoled pediment containing a round-headed keyed window. The hipped roof has ashlar-corniced brick ridge chimneys. The Thermal Syndicate was formed in 1903 to develop the technique of fusing quartz for the manufacture of acid and heat resistent vessels. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2975

Northing:
6575

Grid Reference:
NZ29756575

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4942 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 6/162 C.R. Hart, 2000, Carville First School, Walker, Wallsend, Archaeological Assessment W. Richardson, 1923, History of the parish of Wallsend,