Low Fell, Durham Road, Lloyds Bank

HER Number:
8324

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low Fell, Durham Road, Lloyds Bank

Place:
Low Fell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Reading Room

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Circa 1840 by Thomas Oliver. Dressed stone with Welsh slate roof, corniced stone end chimneys. Two storeys. Four windows, eight-pane sashes, on first floor, two double casements below flanking a studded door with oblong fanlight up six stone steps with cast iron handrails. Stone bracketed eaves cornice. Hoodmoulds over upper windows. First floor band raised above ground floor windows. High plinth. History: built as a reading room for the miners of Low Fell from subscriptions collected locally. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2573

Northing:
6024

Grid Reference:
NZ25736024

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/77