Lion Brush Works, Comet Row

Lion Brush Works, Comet Row

HER Number
9381
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Lion Brush Works, Comet Row
Place
Killingworth
Map Sheet
NZ27SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Industrial Building
Site Type: Specific
Factory
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
By Ryder and Yates 1964. A factory unit for Lion Brushworks, which included offices, a canteen, workshop, plating area and machine room. The building had a brick superstructure but the workshop façade was clad in metal sheeting. The main elevation was brick and had clerestory lighting and projecting display windows at ground floor level. The factory had a steel portal farme with tapered castellated beam rafters. The last frame on the eastern façade was designed to allow future extension of the structure. The entrance elevation included a white channel in its brickwork which incorporated an alarm bell. An external fuel tank cube in the car park entrance was raised on a single support from a concrete basin. The building is now occupied by Henson's. LOCAL LIST
Easting
427120
Northing
570650
Grid Reference
NZ427120570650
Sources
North Tyneside Council, November 2008, Register of Buildings and Parks of Special Local Architectural and Historic Interest SDP (Local Development Document 9); Rutter Carroll, 2009, Ryder and Yates - Twentieth Century Architects, pp 93-94; Peter Yates, Northern Perspective, Vol 2, No.1, March-April 1972, pp 8-9; Architects' Journal, Vol 162, No. 46, 12 November 1975, p 993