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