City Road, Salvation Army Men's Hostel

HER Number:
9786

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
City Road, Salvation Army Men's Hostel

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Homeless Hostel

Site Type: Specific:
Homeless Hostel

General Period:
20TH CENTURY

Specific Period:
Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1974 by Ryder & Yates. Replaced a Men's Palace or itinerants hostel that had been demolished. Respects the height of the adjacent Keelman's Hospital. Sweeps back from the road in an asymmetrical curve of brick and glass. Narrow windows. Now a Social Centre. Twentieth Century Society Building of the Month January 2010 - the building is curved and linear in blue brindle brick. The blue brickwork was also used inside. Gordon Ryder used a curve to replicate the curve in the proposed road improvement. The larger three storey range has bedrooms on ground and second floors and communal rooms on the first. 184 men could be accommodated. There were also day rooms, a restaurant, facilities for the elderly and a small hospital. The steel windows, which originally had bright green shutters, are designed so that three bedroom units could be from two if required. The central entrance has a curved access ramp and boomerang-shaped canopy on columns. The rooftop penthouse for the superintendent has an arched roof. The surrounding grounds are landscaped into 'earth sculptures'. GRADE II LISTED

Easting:
425620

Northing:
564190

Grid Reference:
NZ425620564190

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder, H. Welfare), 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 477; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 39 and 132; Rutter Carroll, 2009, Ryder and Yates, pp 109-115; www.odechair.com/ode/ode/blog_files/Ryder_and_Yates_Classic_Images.html; Elain Harwood, English Heritage historian, 2010, Salvation Army Men's Social Services Centre, Twentieth Century Society Building of the Month archive January 2010, www.c20society.org.uk/both/archive/2010; Carroll, Rutter, 2012, Ryder (RIBA Publishing); RPS, 2009, The Salvation Army Men's Palace, 39 City Road - Archaeological Assessment; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1424948