Tyne and Wear HER(7287): North Shields, Howard Street, Poor Laws Guardians' Hall - Details
7287
N Tyneside
North Shields, Howard Street, Poor Laws Guardians' Hall
North Shields
NZ36NE
Health and Welfare
Cottage Home
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
Poor Laws Guardians' Hall, now Borough offices. 1837 by Green for Tynemouth Poor Law Union. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with rendered chimney. Elizabethan style. Two storeys. Double door with mullioned overlight, first floor cross window. Right return to Saville Street in similar style with ball finial on gable. LISTED GRADE 2
3568
6839
NZ35686839
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/87; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 351; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527