Bensham, Brighton Road, Presbyterian Church Hall

HER Number:
8281

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Brighton Road, Presbyterian Church Hall

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Meeting Hall

Site Type: Specific:
Church Hall

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1903. Snecked sandstone rubble, Welsh slate roofs with fretted ridge tiles, corniced ashlar stacks. Austere building making commanding use of sloping corner site. Main hall with undercroft, large gabled end to road has three bays. Stone mullioned and transomed windows, central, three-light, with Perpendicular head under four-centred arch. Two-bay domestic section at right has three lower storeys with some windows echoing the hall on a smaller scale. Main gabled right bay has a two-storey battlemented oriel. On left return of hall a prominent chimney stack with abutting roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2500

Northing:
6190

Grid Reference:
NZ25006190

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 1 & 9/59