Longbenton, Front Street, vicarage

HER Number:
7267

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Longbenton, Front Street, vicarage

Place:
Longbenton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Clergy House

Site Type: Specific:
Vicarage

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Vicarage, then Northern Counties Orphanage in twentieth century, now part of Ethel Williams Hall of Residence. Circa 1734 for C. Hauton, c.1757 entrance hall and dining room. Coursed irregularly-squared sandstone; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable coping. Ashlar chimneys. Two storeys and attics. Renewed door with overlight in flat stone surround. Plain narrow sash windows; flat stone lintels and sills. Two later dormers. Interior shows panelled room at front left with plain bracketed chimney piece. Ceiling concealed by inserted ceiling. Lugged pedimented architrave to door of rear room. Partly replaced ramped handrail to stair. Some 2-panelled cupboard doors and internal shutters. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2731

Northing:
6851

Grid Reference:
NZ27316851

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/5; Besley, 1843, Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Longbenton, Newcastle, p 10; M. Hope Dodds, 1930, History of Northumberland, vol. XIII, p 400; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 30