English, British
Class
Maritime Craft
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
12
District
Newcastle
Easting
422900
Grid ref figure
6
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
MATERIAL
Timber
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562900
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Place
Elswick
Description
Launched in 1939, this was the last Tyne Wherry of her type to be built. She was the largest shell-clinker (the hull is formed of shaped overlapping planks and crosswise strengthening frames and added later) built craft left afloat in England. She is nearly 55 feet long and 23 feet in the beam, and is built of massive closely-spaced 5 inch x 6 inch frames onto which are nailed the overlapping 1 inch thick oak planks. She was launched as a towing (dumb) wherry but was soon fitted with a motor engine. She was owned by Vicker's Scotswood factory for carrying heavy machinery downriver to be put aboard ship for export or coastal transport. After the War she was bought by N. Keedy and Sons for similar lighterage use, such as carrying pre-fabricated steel sections between shipyard sites. In the early 1970s, N. Keedy and Sons donated Elswick No. 2 to the Maritime Trust. The Trust merged with Tyne and Wear Museums in 1976. The wherry is at Tyne and Wear Museums store at Beamish.
SITEASS
Wherries were large sturdy barge-like crafts built by the shell-clinker method (nail-fastened overlapping planks). The technique was similar to that used by the Vikings for their ships. Wherries had heavy hulls and pointed stems and sterns. During the C19 there was a decline of keels due to changing transport and coal shipping methods. Tyne Wherries were thus designed as more versatile, general purpose vessels for carrying raw materials and finished goods. They also acted as 'lighters' to ferry materials to and from visiting ships which had increased in size after 1850. At first they were propelled with long oars (sweeps) or punting poles and simple sailing rigs. Strings of wherries could be towed by paddle-tugs. In the later C19 many became self-propelled using small boilers and steam engines. Steam wherries were called 'puffers'. Typically wherries were some 50 feet in length and 25 feet beam and weighed 35-40 tons. Later they were even larger. Steam wherries usually had a small hand-operated deck crane. All wherries had a great open hold with short decks at either end, with accomodation for the crew beneath one of them. By the turn of the C20 over two dozen companies or individuals were operating wherries on the River Tyne (e.g. The Tyne Wherry Co. and Allen Brown Ltd (Lightermen)). Some major riverside industries ran their own wherry fleets (e.g. United Alkali chemical works and Cookson's lead refining works). After the First World War the number of wherries declined with the decrease in numbers of ships visiting the Tyne and the improvements in road-freight. After the Second World War many were abandoned at the riverside or cleared upriver by the Port Authority to a 'graveyard' above the head of navigation. By the 1970s only one Tyne wherry was left afloat - the Elswick No. 2, which had been launched in 1939. This was donated to the Maritime Trust and is now owned by Tyne and Wear Museums {'The Last Tyne Wherry - Elswick No. 2', factsheet by Tyne and Wear Museums}.
Site Type: Broad
Sailing Vessel <By Form/Type>
SITEDESC
Launched in 1939, this was the last Tyne Wherry of her type to be built. She was the largest shell-clinker (the hull is formed of shaped overlapping planks and crosswise strengthening frames and added later) built craft left afloat in England. She is nearly 55 feet long and 23 feet in the beam, and is built of massive closely-spaced 5 inch x 6 inch frames onto which are nailed the overlapping 1 inch thick oak planks. She was launched as a towing (dumb) wherry but was soon fitted with a motor engine. She was owned by Vicker's Scotswood factory for carrying heavy machinery downriver to be put aboard ship for export or coastal transport. After the War she was bought by N. Keedy and Sons for similar lighterage use, such as carrying pre-fabricated steel sections between shipyard sites. In the early 1970s, N. Keedy and Sons donated Elswick No. 2 to the Maritime Trust. The Trust merged with Tyne and Wear Museums in 1976. The wherry is at Tyne and Wear Museums store at Beamish.
Site Name
River Tyne, Elswick No. 2 wherry
Site Type: Specific
Wherry
HER Number
12127
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Pers comm Ian Whitehead, Maritime Historian, Newcastle University; 'The Last Tyne Wherry - Elswick No. 2', factsheet by Tyne and Wear Museums
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
02
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430260
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Recreational Usage
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566850
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Wallsend
Description
Boyd Road was widened and straightened in 1979, involving demolition of Nelson Villa which dated to the 1850s.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Boyd Road was widened and straightened in 1979, involving demolition of Nelson Villa which dated to the 1850s.
Site Name
Nelson Villa, Boyd Road
Site Type: Specific
Villa
HER Number
12126
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006;
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
02
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430170
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Recreational Usage
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566770
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Wallsend
Description
Built from 1910 on the site of The Grange (HER 8657), old vicarage and Point Pleasant Farm (HER 11214) by Robert Richardson Dees. This new housing was set at right angles to the village green, which altered the medieval development pattern. These were high density surburban semis which overlaid the long garden plot. Built of large crisp red bricks with brick quoins. Nos. 15 to 17 have the timber sub-frame of the windows painted the same colour as the front door and the window frame painted white (traditional early C20) and square corner bays. The houses also have bow windows. Red clay tiled roof, prominent chimneys.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Built from 1910 on the site of The Grange (HER 8657), old vicarage and Point Pleasant Farm (HER 11214) by Robert Richardson Dees. This new housing was set at right angles to the village green, which altered the medieval development pattern. These were high density suburban semis which overlaid the long garden plot. Built of large crisp red bricks with brick quoins. Nos. 15 to 17 have the timber sub-frame of the windows painted the same colour as the front door and the window frame painted white (traditional early C20) and square corner bays. The houses also have bow windows. Red clay tiled roof, prominent chimneys.
Site Name
Wallsend, Grange Villas
Site Type: Specific
Semi Detached House
HER Number
12125
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006;
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877, 803
DAY1
02
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430110
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Recreational Usage
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MAP2
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566820
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Place
Wallsend
Description
A large open space some 1.2 hectares in size. Lies at the heart of the Conservation Area and was at the core of the village's development pattern. Wild (2004) suggests that the characteristic green villages of Northumberland date back to the reconstruction of settlement in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest and the 'harrying of the north'. The greens originally had a defensive function to protect livestock against Scottish raiders. The wide open space in the centre of the village could also be used for fairs, markets, for grazing animals and a meeting space (Rowley and Wood, 2000, 41). Dwellings were often built around the green, with a common forge, bakehouse, pinfold, smithy, alehouse, stocks, spring or pond on the green itself (Roberts 1977, 146). A rare tract of large green space with trees in the town centre, to be prized for its amenity and ecological value. Originally the oval shaped green would have been used for grazing - local people report cows on the Green as late as the 1960s! In the nineteenth century it was more scrubby with fewer trees. The public part of the green comprises three areas of mown grass, dissected by the throughroad, an access road and two paths. Around the southern edge are mature native trees - poplars, limes, sycamores and horse chestnuts, mostly planted in the nineteenth century. The part to the north, by Elm Terrace has trees lining the through road. A low unpainted jockey rail lines the south edge and a series of unpainted timber bollards line the northern edge. The land in front of the Hall, Hawthorn and Park Villas have been enclosed and made private. This end of the Green was fenced off to increase the privacy and grandeur of the Red House (HER 8659) which was built between 1840 and 1858. Simple black estate fencing divides this area from the Green plus two pedestrian gates in the north-east and south-west corners, the latter an interesting timber gate, and two low stone-topped curved brick walls and gate piers at the vehicle entrance to the drive. An iron water pump survives. The foregrounds to the Hall are more formal. This part of the Green was enclosed by 1800. The Ordnance Survey first edition map shows that this had been formalised into a front lawn edged by belts of trees and a circuit path. There was a shaped forecourt in front of the Hall with a long striaght walk east along the brow of the dene towards a summer house, ornamental gardens and lawns against the Hall to the east; and belts of trees and open ground leading further east. To the north were the picturesque grounds of the dene itself (HER 9492). The Hall's east extension has been built over the ornamental gardens, the west extensions over the drive and the Health Centre and surgery over the tree belts and open ground in the east. The foregrounds that do remain are attractive, with a squarish lawn surrounded by large broadleaf trees and one large tree in the centre. Along the drives are evergreens and ornamental trees. The flat lawn is raised behind a low sandstone retaining wall along the boundary to the Green. A tall brick boundary wall defines the west edge of the Hall's foregrounds with an early service gateway at the north end and a later inserted gateway further south. Connected to it at the Green is the Hall's lodge. n the late C20 the Green was formally registered as a village green under the Commons Registration Act 1965. It is the only space in the Borough to be registered in this way.
Site Type: Broad
Village Green
SITEDESC
A large open space some 1.2 hectares in size. Lies at the heart of the Conservation Area and was at the core of the village's development pattern. Wild (2004) suggests that the characteristic green villages of Northumberland date back to the reconstruction of settlement in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest and the 'harrying of the north'. The greens originally had a defensive function to protect livestock against Scottish raiders. The wide open space in the centre of the village could also be used for fairs, markets, for grazing animals and a meeting space (Rowley and Wood, 2000, 41). Dwellings were often built around the green, with a common forge, bakehouse, pinfold, smithy, alehouse, stocks, spring or pond on the green itself (Roberts 1977, 146). A rare tract of large green space with trees in the town centre, to be prized for its amenity and ecological value. Originally the oval shaped green would have been used for grazing - local people report cows on the Green as late as the 1960s! In the nineteenth century it was more scrubby with fewer trees. The public part of the green comprises three areas of mown grass, dissected by the through road, an access road and two paths. Around the southern edge are mature native trees - poplars, limes, sycamores and horse chestnuts, mostly planted in the nineteenth century. The part to the north, by Elm Terrace has trees lining the through road. A low unpainted jockey rail lines the south edge and a series of unpainted timber bollards line the northern edge. The land in front of the Hall, Hawthorn and Park Villas have been enclosed and made private. This end of the Green was fenced off to increase the privacy and grandeur of the Red House (HER 8659) which was built between 1840 and 1858. Simple black estate fencing divides this area from the Green plus two pedestrian gates in the north-east and south-west corners, the latter an interesting timber gate, and two low stone-topped curved brick walls and gate piers at the vehicle entrance to the drive. An iron water pump survives. The foregrounds to the Hall are more formal. This part of the Green was enclosed by 1800. The Ordnance Survey first edition map shows that this had been formalised into a front lawn edged by belts of trees and a circuit path. There was a shaped forecourt in front of the Hall with a long straight walk east along the brow of the dene towards a summer house, ornamental gardens and lawns against the Hall to the east; and belts of trees and open ground leading further east. To the north were the picturesque grounds of the dene itself (HER 9492). The Hall's east extension has been built over the ornamental gardens, the west extensions over the drive and the Health Centre and surgery over the tree belts and open ground in the east. The foregrounds that do remain are attractive, with a squarish lawn surrounded by large broadleaf trees and one large tree in the centre. Along the drives are evergreens and ornamental trees. The flat lawn is raised behind a low sandstone retaining wall along the boundary to the Green. A tall brick boundary wall defines the west edge of the Hall's foregrounds with an early service gateway at the north end and a later inserted gateway further south. Connected to it at the Green is the Hall's lodge. n the late C20 the Green was formally registered as a village green under the Commons Registration Act 1965. It is the only space in the Borough to be registered in this way.
Site Name
Wallsend, village green
Site Type: Specific
Village Green
HER Number
12124
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; T. Wild, 2004, Village England - a social history of the countryside, p 13; T. Rowley and J. Wood, 2000, Deserted Villages (third edition), p. 41; B.K. Roberts, 1977, Rural Settlement in Britain, p. 146; B.K. Roberts, 1987, The making of the English village - a study in historical geography, p. 151
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430170
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566930
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Place
Wallsend
Description
Built in 1940. Has a strong well-informed Art Deco influence with smooth white natural Portland stone detailing and dark brown bricks and stark white pointing. Stretcher bond. Impressive doorways with chunky Portland stone mouldings including rounded pilasters with a faint Egyptian influence, probably once topped with lanterns. The heavy panelled timber doors have metal framed overlights with geometric glazing bar patterns. The west entrance has a sizeable loggia of hexagonal brick and tile columns, now enclosed with railings. Flat roof. Brick and Portland stone parapets with carved name 'Borough of Wallsend Health Centre' and date plates. A sundial is missing.
Site Type: Broad
Clinic
SITEDESC
Designed in the late 1930s. A good example of a modernist interwar health centre. Architecturally fairly modest, but with carefully detailed elevations, design and good quality materials. Art Deco influence - strong geometry, crisp symmetry, fluted motifs, hexagons, stepped parapets. Double-height central waiting hall with Art Deco columns and stepped parapet. Surrounded by lower flat-roofed blocks with elevations stepped back or forward. Mellow brown brick with bright white pointing. Vertical brick and Portland stone bands. East and west entrances have Portland stone mouldings including round columns, heavy panelled wooden doors, metal-framed overlights with glazing bars in a herringbone pattern around a central hexagon. The west entrance has a prominent loggia with a colonnade of octagonal brick and tile columns. Inside the Art Deco style is repeated - stepped door cases to the two main entrances, hexagonal columns with fluted capitals in the central hall. Shaped door architraves to the south corridor. Glazed double doors with hexagonal heads to the courtyard. Elements of the original decorative scheme to the entrance vestibule and corridors. The design and layout maximises space and light. Echoes some of the principles of design of other interwar health centres including Kingsway Health Centre, Widnes, Cheshire (1938-9, Grade 2). The interior included an ante-natal department, sunlight rooms, child welfare services, nurses rooms, isolation room etc.
Site Name
Wallsend, The Green, Health Centre
Site Type: Specific
Clinic
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
12123
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840; English Heritage, 18 December 2012, Advice Report, List Entry Number 1413007; Susan Francis, Rosemary Glanville, Ann Noble, Peter Schler, 1999, 50 years of ideas in health care buildings; Sunday Sun, 22 December 1940, account of formal opening of Wallsend Health Centre; Geoff Holland, The Wallsend Discovery Walk www.tynetown.co.uk/events/item/2003
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Recreational
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430070
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566720
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Wallsend
Description
Built between 1897 and 1916. This replaced the White House (HER 8658). The vast covered roller skating rink was used for aeroplane construction during the First World War, a boxing hall between 1919 and 1920, the Daimler Co. Ltd in 1922 with an adjoining car showroom to the west, then a Ministry of Works depot (named Training Centre, Ministry of Labour on OS fourth edition of 1937. It was then a giant paper store for government records. In the 1950s an unemployment benefit office was built next door. Both buildings have now gone.
Site Type: Broad
Sports Building
SITEDESC
Built between 1897 and 1916. This replaced the White House (HER 8658). The vast covered roller skating rink was used for aeroplane construction during the First World War, a boxing hall between 1919 and 1920, the Daimler Co. Ltd in 1922 with an adjoining car showroom to the west, then a Ministry of Works depot (named Training Centre, Ministry of Labour on OS fourth edition of 1937. It was then a giant paper store for government records. In the 1950s an unemployment benefit office was built next door. Both buildings have now gone.
Site Name
Wallsend, North View, roller skating rink
Site Type: Specific
Skating Rink
HER Number
12122
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
DAY2
16
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430180
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Iron
MONTH1
2
MONTH2
11
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566730
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Wallsend
Description
Built between 1897 and 1916. Still survives but altered. Small simple church now used by Pentecostals. Timber clad with a 1970s brick and concrete façade.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Built around 1900. Still survives but altered. Small simple church now used by Pentecostals. Timber clad with a 1970s brick and concrete façade. Rare survival of an iron church.
Site Name
Wallsend, North View, Baptist Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Baptist Chapel
HER Number
12121
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside
YEAR1
2009
YEAR2
2012
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430240
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566900
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Wallsend
Description
Joseph Mordue junior was school master in Wallsend in 1818. By 1858 he had built a brewery behind the old school house (Jasmine House, HER 7364). The Mordue Brewery was revived as a business in 1995 and continues to brew on a new site north of Wallsend Green. The tightly packed brewery buildings are still there, grouped around a courtyard off Boyd Road, now in residential use. Good example of vernacular architecture - plain, robust buildings with no ornamentation. Characteristic first floor loading doors survive.
Site Type: Broad
Food and Drink Industry Site
SITEDESC
Joseph Mordue junior was school master in Wallsend in 1818. By 1858 he had built a brewery behind the old school house (Jasmine House, HER 7364). The Mordue Brewery was revived as a business in 1995 and continues to brew on a new site north of Wallsend Green. The tightly packed brewery buildings are still there, grouped around a courtyard off Boyd Road, now in residential use. Good example of vernacular architecture - plain, robust buildings with no ornamentation. Characteristic first floor loading doors survive. The brewery is now located on the Tyne Tunnel Trading Estate.
Site Name
Mordue Brewery, Crow Bank
Site Type: Specific
Brewery
HER Number
12120
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840;
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430050
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566900
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Wallsend
Description
A short terrace of 1870 which appears like one large house. No. 3 is mid Victorian, No. 4 is late Georgian. There are various offshots of various scale to the rear. Polychromatic brick. Moulded timber hoods with slate roofs on stone or brick brackets. No. 4 has a well-detailed brick and timber porch with painted and leaded glass. One or two ledged and braced back gates survive in the yard walls. Sash windows have large panes and 'horns' for added strength. Nos. 1-3 have small brick peaks above the first floor windows with dentilled brick verges and interesting early metal rooflights.
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
A short terrace of 1870 which appears like one large house. No. 3 is mid Victorian, No. 4 is late Georgian. There are various offshots of various scale to the rear. Polychromatic brick. Moulded timber hoods with slate roofs on stone or brick brackets. No. 4 has a well-detailed brick and timber porch with painted and leaded glass. One or two ledged and braced back gates survive in the yard walls. Sash windows have large panes and 'horns' for added strength. Nos. 1-3 have small brick peaks above the first floor windows with dentilled brick verges and interesting early metal rooflights.
Site Name
Wallsend, Elm Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
HER Number
12119
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
11877
DAY1
25
District
N Tyneside
Easting
430030
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
567050
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Wallsend
Description
A typical respectful suburban balance. Early to mid twentieth century, high quality and well presented. Tile-hung bay windows. Half-timbered gables.
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
A typical respectful suburban balance. Early to mid twentieth century, high quality and well presented. Tile-hung bay windows. Half-timbered gables.
Site Name
Wallsend, Queen's Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
HER Number
12118
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North Tyneside Council, 2006, The Green Conservation Area Character Appraisal, Draft August 2006; Wallsend Tithe Map 1840
YEAR1
2009