Life Brigade Watch House, Cullercoats

HER Number

5057

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Life Brigade Watch House, Cullercoats

Place

Cullercoats

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Maritime

Site Type: Broad

Navigation Aid

Site Type: Specific

Coastguard Station

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Life Brigade Watch House, Victoria Crescent, Cullercoats. This was designed by Frank West Rich, who designed Turnbull's Warehouse and Bolbec Hall (amongst other buildings). The Cullercoats Life Brigade, the second to be formed (after Tynemouth), was formed after 1864 and the Watch House constructed between 1877 and 1879. Built of roughly-squared sandstone with rock-faced quoins and dressings, a wooden verandah and tiled roof. Shingled belfry with balustrade. One storey. Boarded door under catslide roof. One stone-mullioned square-headed window under gable. Casements with glazing bars in back verandah. Clock turret has tall octagonal roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

436400

Northing

571400

Grid Reference

NZ436400571400

Sources

<< HER 5057 >> J. Alexander, 1999, Images of England - Tynemouth & Cullercoats, p 106, 111
Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 5/141
1901, Cullercoats in the Old Days - lecture by Alderman Spence, Shields Daily News, March 1901
1879, Newcastle Daily Courant, 13. 10. 1879; R. Wright, 2002, The People's History - Cullercoats; North Tyneside Council, 2009, Cullercoats Conservation Area Draft Character Appraisal; John Penn, 2009, The Enigmatic Architect: Frank West Rich (1840-1929), Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th Series, Vol XXXVIII, pp 139-149