32 to 34 Fish Quay, Vita House

HER Number

10861

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

32 to 34 Fish Quay, Vita House

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Warehouse

Site Type: Specific

Fish Warehouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Typical of the Fish Quay's late nineteenth century architecture. Vita House is a two storey, east-west range of purpose-built fish stores off Union Road. It retains original ground floor openings (now with roller shutters), a Welsh slate roof and an unaltered rear elevation. The south elevation has a overhanging gallery at first floor and a large square hanging clock projecting from the south-west corner at eaves level.

Easting

436270

Northing

568510

Grid Reference

NZ436270568510

Sources

North East Civic Trust, 2001, Clifford's Fort, North Shields - Draft Conservation Plan, page 54