Tynemouth Road, Master Mariners' Home

HER Number

7349

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Tynemouth Road, Master Mariners' Home

Place

Tynemouth

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad

Almshouse

Site Type: Specific

Almshouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Almshouses, now 18 old people's homes. 1837, by J. and B. Green for Tyne Mariners' Benevolent Institution; land given by Duke of Northumberland; restored 1973. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof; lead tower roof. Jacobean style, E-plan with central tower. Two storeys. Open-arched ground floor in central projecting bay with 3-storey tower. First floor niche contains commemorative inscription and arms of Trinity House, Newcastle. Clock stage above. Square bellcote and vane. Inserted twentieth century doors in wings and inserted casements in blocked doorways. First floor oriels. Conjoined octagonal chimneys at apex of gables to street, ridge chimneys on double span roof. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

436450

Northing

569070

Grid Reference

NZ436450569070

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/129; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 211