Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall

HER Number:
8070

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Church Bank, Jarrow Hall

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House, now a Museum (part of Bede's World). 1785 for Simon Temple coal owner. Brick with stone dressings; roof of Welsh slate. Simple block with set back wing at north. 2 storeys; 3 bays by 5 to the main house and one to the set-back. West elevation : central 6-panelled door under decorated round fanlight in panelled recess and dentilled open pedimented Tuscan doorcase; cill bands to sash windows with glazing bars and flat stone lintels; eaves cornice. South elevation : 5 windows; central 3 in semicircular bay having pointed parapet with rendered coping; cill bands, stone lintels, those over the central 3 windows of later date, as are the fixed light windows; other windows sashes with glazing bars. Hipped roof, 2 transverse corniced ridge chimneys of brick; half-hipped roof to wing. Interior : cornices to lower and upper halls; 6-panelled doors in panelled reveals having reeded architraves; fluted pilasters carrying hall arches; open well staircase with decorated tread ends, 2 plain square balusters to each tread, inlaid handrail with spiral curtail; Venetian landing window with Gothick tracery and low relief heads either side of round-headed window. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3378

Northing:
6540

Grid Reference:
NZ33786540

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 1/83; South Tyneside Council, September 2006, St. Paul's Conservation Area Character Appraisal