English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
28
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3568
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6839
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
North Shields
Description
Poor Laws Guardians' Hall, now Borough offices. 1837 by Green for Tynemouth Poor Law Union. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with rendered chimney. Elizabethan style. Two storeys. Double door with mullioned overlight, first floor cross window. Right return to Saville Street in similar style with ball finial on gable. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Cottage Home
SITEDESC
Poor Laws Guardians' Hall, now Borough offices. 1837 by J & B Green for Tynemouth Poor Law Union. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof with rendered chimney. Elizabethan/Jacobean style. Two storeys. Double door with mullioned overlight, first floor cross window. Right return to Saville Street in similar style with ball finial on gable. Lower part of the three-by-three bay building has been partly rebuilt to match Dobson's Tudor. Now part of the Saville Exchange. There is a stained glass window and plaque dedicated to Thomas Brown, war hero (1926-1945). Thomas served on the Vickers Armstrong-built destroyer HMS Petard as a NAAFI canteen assistant. He was only 16 years old. He was one of three men who swam over to a stricken U-Boat when it surfaced, to retrieve the secret Enigma Machine code books. He was later awarded the George Medal for his bravery. His two Navy colleagues were drowned.
Site Name
Howard Street, Poor Laws Guardians' Hall
Site Type: Specific
Cottage Home
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7287
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/87; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 351; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Clare Henderson
DAY1
28
DAY2
11
District
N Tyneside
Easting
35677
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
MONTH2
03
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
68422
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
North Shields
Description
Nonconformist church, now Borough offices. 1856-57 by Benjamin Green for United Free Methodists. Sandstone ashlar front, rubble left return, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. Three arched panels contain double doors under fanlights. Sash windows. The Free Methodist Church was formed in North Shields in 1850 by the Wesleyan Association, the Protestant Methodists and Armenian Methodists. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Similar to Hetton-le-Hole Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated 1858.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Nonconformist church, now Borough Treasurers Dept. 1856-57 by Benjamin Green [Peter Ryder says John Dobson] for United Free Methodists. Sandstone ashlar front, rubble left return, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. Three arched panels contain double doors under fanlights. Sash windows. The Free Methodist Church was formed in North Shields in 1850 by the Wesleyan Association, the Protestant Methodists and Armenian Methodists. Extended to rear in brick.
Site Name
Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church
Site Type: Specific
United Methodist Free Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7286
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/85; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 376; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
YEAR2
2021
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3561
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6790
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
North Shields
Description
Sailor's Home, now offices. 1854-6 by Benjamin Green for 4th Duke of Northumberland. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor. Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Three storeys and attic. Bays defined by flat giant Ionic pilasters. 4-panelled door under fanlight. Double door in glazed round-headed opening. Round-headed windows. Dentilled entablature to second floor. Elliptical-headed carriage entrance. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Almshouse
SITEDESC
Sailor's Home, now offices. 1854-6 by Benjamin Green for 4th Duke of Northumberland. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor. Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Three storeys and attic. Bays defined by flat giant Ionic pilasters. 4-panelled door under fanlight. Double door in glazed round-headed opening. Round-headed windows. Dentilled entablature to second floor. Elliptical-headed carriage entrance.
Site Name
65, 66 and 67 Borough Road
Site Type: Specific
Almshouse
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7276
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/43; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 529
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3561
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6875
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
North Shields
Description
Non-conformist church; Sunday School (now social centre) and minister's house. 1889-91 by F.R.N. Haswell for Wesleyan Methodists at expense of J. Robinson in memory of daughter Elizabeth. Restored 1981 for North Tyneside Memorial Church. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roofs with stone gable copings and ornamental ridge tiles. Church is aligned north-south, tower at ritual north-west. Aisled nave with south-west apsidal-ended chapel, transepts, chancel with porches. Doors in arches under 4-light west window with pink granite nook shafts. Tower has gargoyles on parapet. Octagonal stair turret continues to higher level. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado, cast-iron columns, hammer-beam roof. Most original fittings survive. The former Sunday school has a double boarded door under an arch and lancet and cinquefoil windows. The minister's house is in similar materials and style. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Non-conformist church; Sunday School (now Kiki's Cabin soft play and café) and minister's house. 1889-91 by F.R.N. Haswell for Wesleyan Methodists at expense of Joseph Robinson (of the Stag Line) in memory of daughter Elizabeth. Restored 1981 for North Tyneside Memorial Church. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roofs with stone gable copings and ornamental ridge tiles. Church is aligned north-south, tower at ritual north-west. Aisled nave with south-west apsidal-ended chapel, transepts, chancel with porches. Doors in arches under 4-light west window with pink granite nook shafts. Tower has gargoyles on parapet. Octagonal stair turret continues to higher level. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado, two tiers of cast-iron columns with stiffleaf capitals under the gallery, ballflower at the top, hammer-beam roof. Most original fittings survive. The former Sunday school has a double boarded door under an arch and lancet and cinquefoil windows. The minister's house is in similar materials and style. The church seated around 1000 people. Restored in 1981 for North Tyneside Memorial Church. Until recently [2012] used by Frank Wappat 'preacher and revivalist'.
Site Name
Albion Road, Memorial Church
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7275
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 12/36; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels in Newcastle and North Tyneside; Eric Hollerton, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series - North Shields
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Unassigned
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7273
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3328
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7011
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
New York
Description
Two gate piers. Tooled rusticated ashlar. Rectangular section with low-sloped coping. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Gate Pier
SITEDESC
Two gate piers. Tooled rusticated ashlar. Rectangular section with low-sloped coping.
Site Name
Murton House Farmhouse gate piers, Rake Lane
Site Type: Specific
Gate Pier
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7274
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/116
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7274
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
3322
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ37SW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
7014
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
New York
Description
Farmhouse; mid eighteenth century with later additions. Coursed squared sandstone; pantiled roof with flat stone gable coping and brick chimneys. Two storeys. Central half-glazed door in late nineteenth century porch. Flat stone lintels to wood cross windows with early twentieth century glazing. Ground floor left return has round-headed window in stone surround. The original farmhouse (the south-west part of the existing building) was built before 1765. Between 1765 and 1788 it was substantially extended north and east to over double its original size. The single storey offshoot to the north was added between 1788 and 1865. On 29th and 30th August 1940 an incendiary bomb set fire to and destroyed the cow byre, milking shed and hay shed. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Agricultural Building
SITEDESC
Farmhouse; mid eighteenth century with later additions. Coursed squared sandstone; pantiled roof with flat stone gable coping and brick chimneys. Two storeys. Central half-glazed door in late nineteenth century porch. Flat stone lintels to wood cross windows with early twentieth century glazing. Ground floor left return has round-headed window in stone surround.

Converted into two dwellings in 2018. Recorded beforehand by Spence & Dower. The main roof consists of a pair of duo-pitched roofs. The northern and southern pitches have a clay tile covering, the central pitches have slate covering. A single storey duo-pitched roofed offshoot is located on the north elevation and another on the east gable. Both offshoots have slate roofs. The front south elevation is dressed coursed stone. The north elevation and gables are random rough dressed stone. A small cellar is located beneath the south western room.

The original farmhouse (the south-west part of the existing building) was built before 1765. Between 1765 and 1788 it was substantially extended north and east to over double its original size. The single storey offshoot to the north was added between 1788 and 1865. The sequence of additions has been ascertained from the wall thickness, floor type, window, door and cupboard details.

William Stout was the owner pre-1765 according to the NCH. In 1765 Henry Metcalfe purchased the farm. The NCH includes a plan of Henry Metcalfe's Ground by Thomas Wilkin, dated 1788.

In 1825 Mackenzie describes Murton House as "a good stone building, ornamented with trees and a convenient garden attached: it is occupied by Mr. William Falconar".

In 1828 Murton House was the seat of Captain Robert Nolan.

In 1833 Robert Hansell purchased the house. In 1872 Joseph Love bought it.

On 29th and 30th August 1940 an incendiary bomb set fire to and destroyed the cow byre, milking shed and hay shed. The windows of the farmhouse were damaged and rapidly replaced with poor quality materials.

The farm has been unoccupied since 2015.
Site Name
Murton House Farmhouse, Rake Lane
Site Type: Specific
Farmhouse
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7273
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 4/115; Spence & Dower LLP, May 2016, Murton House, New York Road, North Shields - Condition Appraisal Report; Spence & Dower LLP, 2017, Murton House Farm - Heritage, Design and Access Statement for Change of Use; Crawford Higgins Associates, 2017, Structural Appraisal Report - Murton Farm Steading, Rake Lane, North Shields; Spence & Dower LLP, 2018, Recording of Work to Grade II Listed Murton Farmhouse; Northumberland County History, Volume VII; E. Mackenzie, 1825, An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County of Northumberland; Parson & White, 1828, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland; Roy Ripley and Brian Peters, 1994, North-East Diary 1939-1945
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
785, 786, 7267
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
2768
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6914
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Longbenton
Description
Parish church. 1790 rebuilding of medieval church (HER 785); 1842 repairs; 1873-5 repairs and additions. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, stone spire. Perpendicular style. West tower, nave, north porch, south aisle and porch, chancel with south aisles, north vestry, 2-stage tower has 2-light west window under arched belfry opening. Corner pinnacles to battlements; octagonal spire with weather-vane. South porch has arched door and is battlemented. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings, collar beam roof trusses with upper king posts. Two small cross-incised grave slabs set above aumbry and piscina. Grave slabs attached to east nave wall commemorate John Fenwick died 1581, John Killingworth and members of his family died 1587-1700; and to grave slabs to tower wall is for Edward Hindmarsh died 1708 and Ralph Anderson died 1687. 1857 stone font. First World War bronze memorial slab on stone mount on west wall. Non-pictorial glass by L.C. Evetts; nineteenth century glass from east window resited in south organ chamber. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church. 1790 rebuilding of medieval church (HER 785); the medieval nave was rebuilt wider and with a west tower to a design by William Newton. G.B. Richardson's drawing of c. 1840 shows this, and the medieval chancel, with two south lancets, a blocked south door, and two eighteenth century windows, one south, one east. 1842 repairs; 1873-5 repairs and additions. Sandstone ashlar with plinth; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, stone spire. Perpendicular style. West tower, nave, north porch, south aisle and porch, chancel with south aisles, north vestry, 2-stage tower has 2-light west window under arched belfry opening. Corner pinnacles to battlements; octagonal spire with weather-vane. South porch has arched door and is battlemented. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings, collar beam roof trusses with upper king posts. Two small cross-incised grave slabs set above aumbry and piscina. Grave slabs attached to east nave wall commemorate John Fenwick died 1581, John Killingworth and members of his family died 1587-1700; and to grave slabs to tower wall is for Edward Hindmarsh died 1708 and Ralph Anderson died 1687. 1857 stone font. First World War bronze memorial slab on stone mount on west wall. Non-pictorial glass by L.C. Evetts; nineteenth century glass from east window resited in south organ chamber.
Site Name
Station Road, Church of St. Bartholomew
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7272
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/12; Besley, 1843, Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton; M. Hope Dodds, 1930, Northumberland County History, Vol XIII, pages 397-400; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book Two, p 39; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 55
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7270
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
2724
EASTING2
2729
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
6838
NORTHING2
6837
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Longbenton
Description
Ha-ha. Late eighteenth century. Sandstone rubble wall, with flat stone coping. Ashlar right return and four stone steps at right. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Ha Ha
SITEDESC
Ha-ha. Late eighteenth century. Sandstone rubble wall, with flat stone coping. Ashlar right return and four stone steps at right.
Site Name
Hoylake Avenue, Benton House, ha-ha
Site Type: Specific
Ha Ha
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7271
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/10
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
786, 7269, 7271
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
2725
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6843
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Longbenton
Description
House, now Conservative Club. Late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Built for T.C. Bigge (1734-94). Sandstone ashlar; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Two storeys. Inserted sash window in central Tuscan porch. Sash windows, those on first floor renewed. Dentilled broken pediment over central three bays, and dentilled eaves gutter cornice; floating cornice above central window. Wing set back at left has tripartite windows, transomed on ground and sashed at first floors. Half-glazed central door with large overlight in linking section, which has renewed sash windows and an early twentieth century dormer. Hipped roof with ashlar chimneys. Interior damaged by fire. Shop inserted in rear of first bay (see HER 7269). Includes establishement to the west - a former mineral water factory. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, now Conservative Club. Late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Built for T.C. Bigge (1734-94). Sandstone ashlar; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Two storeys. Inserted sash window in central Tuscan porch. Sash windows, those on first floor renewed. Dentilled broken pediment over central three bays, and dentilled eaves gutter cornice; floating cornice above central window. Wing set back at left has tripartite windows, transomed on ground and sashed at first floors. Half-glazed central door with large overlight in linking section, which has renewed sash windows and an early twentieth century dormer. Hipped roof with ashlar chimneys. Interior damaged by fire. Shop inserted in rear of first bay (see HER 7269). Includes establishment to the west - a former mineral water factory {1}. William Bigge II was appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1750. His son, Thomas Charles (born 1739) was High Sheriff in 1771. His son Charles William was High Sheriff in 1802. In 1908 Benton House became the home of Benton Golf Club. The golf course is now built over by housing. In 1949 it became Benton Conservative Club.
Site Name
Benton House, Hoylake Avenue
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7270
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/9; W.G. Elliott and Edwin Smith, Bygone Days of Longbenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor and Killingworth, p 28
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Commercial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
786
DAY1
27
District
N Tyneside
Easting
2723
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
MATERIAL
Ashlar
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
6842
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
20th Century 1901 to 2000
Place
Longbenton
Description
Shop. Twentieth century shop front inserted in west wing of Benton House, Hoylake Avenue (HER 7270). Wood shop front, ashlar above. Graduated Westmorland slate roof. Two storeys. Wide architrave to shop under classical-style fascia. Renewed sashes at first floor under pedimented gable. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Shop
SITEDESC
Shop. A twentieth century shop front inserted into the west wing of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Benton House (HER 7270). Wood shop front, ashlar above. Graduated Westmorland slate roof. Two storeys. Wide architrave to shop under classical-style fascia. Renewed sashes at first floor under pedimented gable. Was Vogue Hair Stylists, now Simmz Deli.
Site Name
Front Street, Simmz Deli
Site Type: Specific
Shop
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7269
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/7
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005