House of Correction, Tynemouth Road,

HER Number:
4560

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
House of Correction, Tynemouth Road,

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Civil

Site Type: Broad:
Legal Site

Site Type: Specific:
House of Correction

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
House of Correction, now workshop and showroom. 1792, converted 1906, altered late twentieth century. Coursed ashlar with hipped slate roof. Ashlar plinth. Street front has single storey two window section to right. Façade to left obscured by three storey twentieth century addition. East front has two plain doorways beyond and a plain wall to former courtyard with a tall stone stack. Wall beyond has blue brick shed with asbestos roof built over former exercise yard and large entrance opening. North front has wall to left topped with blue brick addition with blocked windows and doors with concrete steps. To right, two storey cell block has central cell windows with plain stone mullions and iron bars. West front has single storey brick lean-to addition with brick buttresses and twentieth century windows to right and above two tiny cell windows with iron bars and to right a plain sash window. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
436270

Northing:
568990

Grid Reference:
NZ436270568990

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4560 >> H.H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol. VIII, p 311 R. Simpson, 1988, North Shields and Tynemouth, p 4; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 1022/13/10018