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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

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