Tyne and Wear HER(8324): Low Fell, Durham Road, Lloyds Bank - Details
8324
Gateshead
Low Fell, Durham Road, Lloyds Bank
Low Fell
NZ26SE
Education
Reading Room
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
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
2573
6024
NZ25736024
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/77