Late Victorian with a two-storey bay linked to No. 5. Still has its original tall windows. Decorative clay ridge tiles and ornate barge boards. Contrasting brick banding and richly weathered unpainted sandstone dressings. Good replica railings and gates.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Late Victorian with a two-storey bay linked to No. 5. Still has its original tall windows. Decorative clay ridge tiles and ornate barge boards. Contrasting brick banding and richly weathered unpainted sandstone dressings. Good replica railings and gates.
Site Name
4 Westoe Village, Red House
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
11786
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
951, 11781
DAY1
09
District
S Tyneside
Easting
437010
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
565950
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Westoe
Description
A mid to late Victorian house in brown brick with slate roof, large canted bay windows, decorative rainwater hoppers and deep dentil cornice. The sash windows have been replaced by uPVC. The garden wall is a replica. The garden is concreted over. Used as a building society in the 1970s.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
A mid to late Victorian house in brown brick with slate roof, large canted bay windows, decorative rainwater hoppers and deep dentil cornice. The sash windows have been replaced by uPVC. The garden wall is a replica. The garden is concreted over. Used as a building society in the 1970s.
Site Name
3 Westoe Village
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
11785
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
951, 11781
DAY1
09
District
S Tyneside
Easting
437000
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
565940
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Westoe
Description
No. 1 Westoe Village was damaged during the Second World War and its site later taken for road widening. Remnant walls still adjoin No. 2. No. 2 has sash windows with delicate frames and glazing bars. The railings are replicas on an original sandstone plinth.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
No. 1 Westoe Village was damaged during the Second World War and its site later taken for road widening. Remnant walls still adjoin No. 2. No. 2 has sash windows with delicate frames and glazing bars. The railings are replicas on an original sandstone plinth.
Site Name
2 Westoe Village, St. Nicholas
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
11784
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
951, 11781
DAY1
09
District
S Tyneside
Easting
437080
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
565990
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Westoe
Description
Red brick with red plain tiled roof, deep bracketed eaves and tall chimney stack. Arts & Crafts influence - richly moulded bay window, decorative timber porch on four columns, original front door and fanlight, original decorative valve water hoppers and pipes, original window frames, stone mouldings. uPVC windows in the attic.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Red brick with red plain tiled roof, deep bracketed eaves and tall chimney stack. Arts & Crafts influence - richly moulded bay window, decorative timber porch on four columns, original front door and fanlight, original decorative valve water hoppers and pipes, original window frames, stone mouldings. uPVC windows in the attic.
Site Name
11 Westoe Village, Glandore
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
11783
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
951, 11781
DAY1
09
District
S Tyneside
Easting
437090
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Building
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
566000
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Westoe
Description
Red brick with red plain tiled roof, deep bracketed eaves and tall chimney stack. Arts & Crafts influence - richly moulded bay window, decorative timber porch on four columns, original front door and fanlight, original decorative valve water hoppers and pipes, original window frames, stone mouldings. Westoe Towers has modern extensions, rendering, uPVC windows, large rooflights, loss of green garden and a boarded up belvedere (from when it was in institutional use) which has lost character. It is now back in residential use. Westoe Grange care home has been built in the back garden.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Red brick with red plain tiled roof, deep bracketed eaves and tall chimney stack. Arts & Crafts influence - richly moulded bay window, decorative timber porch on four columns, original front door and fanlight, original decorative valve water hoppers and pipes, original window frames, stone mouldings. Westoe Towers has modern extensions, rendering, uPVC windows, large rooflights, loss of green garden and a boarded up belvedere (from when it was in institutional use) which has lost character. It is now back in residential use. Westoe Grange care home has been built in the back garden.
Site Name
12-13 Westoe Village, Westoe Towers and Sunnylea
Site Type: Specific
Semi Detached House
HER Number
11782
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
951
DAY1
09
District
S Tyneside
Easting
437050
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
565640
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000
Place
Westoe
Description
Designated in 1971. Westoe Conservation Area is based on Westoe Village which contains a remarkable collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century houses, in a green tree-filled setting. It was extended in 1975 and 1981 to include surrounding estates with related character. South Shields' wealthy industrialists lived in townhouses and mansions in Westoe Village. Outlying developments included Westoe Villa and Ingham Infirmary. During the C19 larger detached houses were built along Dean Road, Sunderland Road and what is now called Westoe Drive. As the C20 progressed, Tyneside flats were built to the north and east of the village. By 1939 Westoe was surrounded by residential suburbia. Types of houses: large two storey houses with pitched roofs in Westoe Village, Wood Terrace and Sunderland Road. Most have an attic level and some have semi-basements. Single and one-and-a-half storey service accomodation for the houses include 34-38 Horsley Hill Road and the Coach House and Lodge at Westoe Hall. No. 28 Horsley Hill Road is of diminutive 'estate cottage' proportions. 60-80 Horsley Hill Road and 2-7 Westoe Village are family sized two-storey brick dwellings. Wyveslow Lodge and Norman Hurst are much grander. 8-11 Westoe Village, 1-7 Wood Terrace and Westoe Villa are early Georgian houses. Ravensworth, The Briary, La Tourelle and Norman Hurst are Gothick and Baroque mansions with towers, decoration such as swags, terracotta and oeil-de-boeuf (round) windows. Norman Hurst has an ogee-roofed oriel window and Wyvestow Lodge has a Turkish dome. Ingham Infirmary, Manor House, Southgarth East and The County Public House are Queen Anne Revival with deep dentilled cornices, curved door hoods, shallow-arched windows etc. Westoe Hall, The Bungalow, Westoe Towers, Belmont, Southgarth Cottages and Southgarth West are Arts & Crafts style with mock-Tudor frameworks, cat-slide roofs and Dutch gables.
Site Type: Broad
Settlement
SITEDESC
Designated in 1971. Westoe Conservation Area is based on Westoe Village which contains a remarkable collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century houses, in a green tree-filled setting. It was extended in 1975 and 1981 to include surrounding estates with related character. South Shields' wealthy industrialists lived in townhouses and mansions in Westoe Village. Outlying developments included Westoe Villa and Ingham Infirmary. During the C19 larger detached houses were built along Dean Road, Sunderland Road and what is now called Westoe Drive. As the C20 progressed, Tyneside flats were built to the north and east of the village. By 1939 Westoe was surrounded by residential suburbia. Types of houses: large two storey houses with pitched roofs in Westoe Village, Wood Terrace and Sunderland Road. Most have an attic level and some have semi-basements. Single and one-and-a-half storey service accommodation for the houses include 34-38 Horsley Hill Road and the Coach House and Lodge at Westoe Hall. No. 28 Horsley Hill Road is of diminutive 'estate cottage' proportions. 60-80 Horsley Hill Road and 2-7 Westoe Village are family sized two-storey brick dwellings. Wyveslow Lodge and Norman Hurst are much grander. 8-11 Westoe Village, 1-7 Wood Terrace and Westoe Villa are early Georgian houses. Ravensworth, The Briary, La Tourelle and Norman Hurst are Gothick and Baroque mansions with towers, decoration such as swags, terracotta and oeil-de-boeuf (round) windows. Norman Hurst has an ogee-roofed oriel window and Wyvestow Lodge has a Turkish dome. Ingham Infirmary, Manor House, Southgarth East and The County Public House are Queen Anne Revival with deep dentilled cornices, curved door hoods, shallow-arched windows etc. Westoe Hall, The Bungalow, Westoe Towers, Belmont, Southgarth Cottages and Southgarth West are Arts & Crafts style with mock-Tudor frameworks, cat-slide roofs and Dutch gables.
Site Name
Westoe Conservation Area
Site Type: Specific
Village
SITE_STAT
Conservation Area
HER Number
11781
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
North East Civic Trust & South Tyneside Council, 2002, Westoe Conservation Area Character Appraisal; South Tyneside Council, 2006, Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan, Draft SPD 10; A. Flagg, date unknown, 'Westoe Village', unpublished text held by South Shields Local Studies Library; G. Hodgson, 1924, History of South Shields; N. Pevsner, 1953, The Buildings of England: County Durham
YEAR1
2009
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
N Tyneside
Easting
435380
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Built Over
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
102362
Northing
568890
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Tynemouth
Description
Union workhouse, built 1836. Rebuilt 1884-8 to designs by Henry Gibson.
Site Type: Broad
Workhouse
SITEDESC
Union workhouse, built 1836. Rebuilt 1884-8 to designs by Henry Gibson.
Site Name
Preston Road, Union Workhouse
Site Type: Specific
Workhouse
HER Number
11780
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 208
YEAR1
2009
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Claire MacRae
Crossref
16271, 16272
DAY1
06
DAY2
12
District
Sunderland
Easting
438030
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
MONTH1
1
MONTH2
5
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
102337
Northing
556620
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Union workhouse, built 1853-5. Architect J.E. Oates (also designed workhouses at Wakefield and Blackburn). It cost £15,300 and could accommodate 500 inmates. On 13th October 1855, 306 inmates were transferred from the old Hartley Street workhouse (HER 13324). In 1867 an additional 12 acre site was purchased next door and new hospital buildings were built. In 1868 Union Schools for 200 childten were built. Lunatic wards for 66 inmates were built, costing £3000. These were extended in 1872, costing £500. In 1871 the workhouse housed 325 men and 342 women. The hospital facilities were expanded in the early 1900s. By 1930 the workhouse site was the Highfield Institute and Municipal Hospital. Later, under the National Health Service, it became Sunderland General Hospital, now Royal Hospital. Under the National Health Service, the hospital became Sunderland General Hospital. In 1996 it was renamed Sunderland Royal Hospital. Many of the 1855 workhouse blocks were demolished in the 1970s to make way for new buildings. The main workhouse building was demolished in the early 2000s.
Site Type: Broad
Workhouse
SITEDESC
Union workhouse, built 1853-5. Architect J.E. Oates (also designed workhouses at Wakefield and Blackburn). It cost £15,300 and could accommodate 500 inmates. On 13th October 1855, 306 inmates were transferred from the old Hartley Street workhouse (HER 13324). In 1867 an additional 12 acre site was purchased next door and new hospital buildings were built. In 1868 Union Schools for 200 childten were built. Lunatic wards for 66 inmates were built, costing £3000. These were extended in 1872, costing £500. In 1871 the workhouse housed 325 men and 342 women. The hospital facilities were expanded in the early 1900s. By 1930 the workhouse site was the Highfield Institute and Municipal Hospital. Later, under the National Health Service, it became Sunderland General Hospital, now Royal Hospital. Under the National Health Service, the hospital became Sunderland General Hospital. In 1996 it was renamed Sunderland Royal Hospital. Many of the 1855 workhouse blocks were demolished in the 1970s to make way for new buildings. The main workhouse building was demolished in the early 2000s.
Site Name
Chester Road, Union Workhouse
Site Type: Specific
Workhouse
HER Number
11779
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203; Nigel Green, 2009, Tough Times & Grisly Crimes, page 30; RPS, 2012, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Kayll Road, Sunderland, Archaeological Assessment; http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Sunderland/
YEAR1
2009
YEAR2
2014
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
16791
DAY1
06
District
S Tyneside
Easting
436590
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Built Over
Map Sheet
NZ36SE
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
102327
Northing
564290
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
West Harton
Description
Union workhouse, built 1877-80. Architect J.H. Morton. Some of the workhouse survives as South Tyneside District Hospital.
Site Type: Broad
Workhouse
SITEDESC
Union workhouse, built 1877-80. Architect J.H. Morton. The Workhouse of the South Shields Poor Law Union. By the 1870s, the German Street building (HER 11777) was proving too small and in 1875 it was decided to build a new workhouse at a site on the edge of Harton Moor. The foundation stone for the new building was laid in September 1877 by the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Mr WM Anderson JP. The architect for the scheme was Joseph Hall Morton who was also involved in the design of the nearby workhouse at Gateshead. Construction of the building cost £43,361 but the total cost including the purchase of 17 acres from the Church Commissioners was in the region of £55,000.
The new workhouse started admitting paupers in 1878 although the building work was not finally completed until early in 1880. It initially accommodated 700 inmates and comprised an entrance block, main building, infirmary, and schools. The main buildings were based on the then common pavilion layout. Successive additions were made to the site and by 1910 it was estimated that the cost to date had been £94,750 with the workhouse now able to accommodate 1,200 inmates excluding those in the separate lunatics' block at the south-east of the site.
By 1900 the central group of buildings was a sizeable hospital for the town's poor. Some of the workhouse survives as South Tyneside District Hospital - the workhouse eastern pavilions, the laundry and workshops with mental block behind. Early hospital buildings are the original hospital administration block and the west pavilions.
After 1930, the workhouse between Harton Institution and General Hospital, then South Shields General Hospital in the late 1940s and later South Tyneside District Hospital.
Site Name
West Harton, Harton Lane, Union Workhouse
Site Type: Specific
Workhouse
HER Number
11778
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203; Norman McCord, 1991, North East History from the Air, pp 95-96; http://www.workhouses.org.uk/SouthShields; Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA. Guardians' minutes (1899-1932), Births (1914-37), Deaths (1914-48), Admissions (1926-48), Admissions and discharges (1897-1956), Creed registers (1877-1948), Epilepsy registers (1911-36), Lunacy registers (1908-48); Peter Higginbotham, 2013, A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse; Peter Higginbotham, 2012, The Workhouse Encyclopedia; TWAS DT.JHM/204 South Shields Union Workhouse c.1871-1983
YEAR1
2009
English, British
Class
Health and Welfare
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
S Tyneside
Easting
436910
Grid ref figure
8
LANDUSE
Built Over
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
MONTH1
1
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
100673
Northing
567510
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
South Shields
Description
Union workhouse, built 1837. Architects John and Benjamin Green.
Site Type: Broad
Workhouse
SITEDESC
Union workhouse, built 1837. Architects John and Benjamin Green, who were also the architects of the Castle Ward workhouse at Ponteland. In 1839, the Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £2,506 on the building which was to accommodate 205 inmates.
The workhouse adopted a cruciform layout, perhaps based on Sampson Kempthorne's "200-pauper" plan published by the Poor Law Commissioners in 1836. The building had an entrance and administrative block at the south. To the rear, the separate ranges the different classes of inmates (male/female, infirm/able-bodied) enclosed exercise yards. By the 1870s, the German Street building was proving too small and in 1875 it was decided to build a new workhouse at a site on the edge of Harton Moor (HER 11778).
Site Name
Ocean Road (German St), Union Workhouse
Site Type: Specific
Workhouse
HER Number
11777
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203; http://www.workhouses.org.uk/SouthShields; Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA. Guardians' minutes (1899-1932), Births (1914-37), Deaths (1914-48), Admissions (1926-48), Admissions and discharges (1897-1956), Creed registers (1877-1948), Epilepsy registers (1911-36), Lunacy registers (1908-48); Peter Higginbotham, 2013, A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse; Peter Higginbotham, 2012, The Workhouse Encyclopedia