Gateshead, Nelson Street, Borough Housing Department 1

HER Number:
8311

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Nelson Street, Borough Housing Department 1

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Early C19 four square villa. Local pinkish brick with stone dressings. Low pitched buffed Welsh slate roof. Deep eaves with paired stone brackets projecting from a frieze which rests on the stone capitals of brick pilaster bay divisions. Two storeys, four narrower by three wider bays. Stone lintels and cills to sash windows with glazing bars. Central entrance on South front has plain stone classical doorcase with square columns. This mansion housed Gateshead's dispensary (which was founded in 1832 following a cholera outbreak in 1831) from 1855 to 1946. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2545

Northing:
6332

Grid Reference:
NZ25456332

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 5/28; S. Taylor and D. Lovie, 2004, Gateshead - Architecture in a Changing English Urban Landscape, pp 20-21