East Boldon, Station Road, Telephone Exchange
East Boldon, Station Road, Telephone Exchange
HER Number
8243
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
East Boldon, Station Road, Telephone Exchange
Place
East Boldon
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
Class
Communications
Site Type: Broad
Telecommunication Building
Site Type: Specific
Telephone Exchange
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Boxed shaped 1930s Telephone Exchange and former Barclays Bank. Representative of a style and period of commercial architecture of increasing rarity and interest. The ground floor of the bank has been altered. The boundary walls, doors and steel windows of the Telephone Exchange survive. The large 1960s extension to the rear is intrusive.
Easting
436830
Northing
561240
Grid Reference
NZ436830561240
Sources
North of England Civic Trust on behalf of South Tyneside Council, February 2006, East Boldon Conservation Area Character Appraisal; East Boldon School Centenary 1885-1985; M. Linge, The Story of Boldon; A. Middleton, 1983, Boldon's Witness in Church and Community; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham; W. Wilson, 1935, A Short History of Boldon