Hawkeys Lane, Victoria Jubilee Infirmary
Hawkeys Lane, Victoria Jubilee Infirmary
HER Number
              9288
          District
              N Tyneside
          Site Name
              Hawkeys Lane, Victoria Jubilee Infirmary
          Place
              North Shields
          Map Sheet
              NZ26NE
          Class
              Health and Welfare
          Site Type: Broad
              Hospital Department
          Site Type: Specific
              Outpatients Department
          General Period
              20TH CENTURY
          Specific Period
              Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
          Form of Evidence
              Extant Building
          Description
              Hospital outpatient wing. 1932. Designed by Cackett, Burns, Dick & Mackellar, and built by Ball Brothers of North Shields. Brown brick with dressings of red brick and Portland stone. Graduated Lakeland slate roof with copper stack cone. One tall storey, 3 bays and lower set-back flat-roofed right bay with canted ends. Plinth; part-opening casements, with glazing bars and radial heads, in stone jambs and console-keyed archivolts; impost string continued into end bay; brick apron panels between full-length jambs. Square-headed smaller similar window in end bay. Deep, moulded eaves cornice. Hipped roof has central stack with band and cornice, conical swept cap. Coped parapet to right bay. The building is entered through a panelled double door in the left return, in stone architrave. 
Included for historical interest. LISTED GRADE 2
This building was erected by a bequest of �15,000 from Mrs Wilson of Easby House, North Shields, and it was opened in September 1932.
Left covered way, small extension and link to main hospital are altered and not of special interest.
          Included for historical interest. LISTED GRADE 2
This building was erected by a bequest of �15,000 from Mrs Wilson of Easby House, North Shields, and it was opened in September 1932.
Left covered way, small extension and link to main hospital are altered and not of special interest.
Easting
              434810
          Northing
              568560
          Grid Reference
              NZ434810568560
    Sources
              Department of Culture Media and Sport, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest