Circa 1788.
Red brick, slate roof. Two storeys, 3 bays, stone heads. Two storeyed bay window
to the east bay. All windows sashed, with glazing bars. Fine Tuscan doorcase
(half columns) with broken pediment, good fanlight. Brick string course above the
ground floor and first floor window heads. LISTED GRADE 2

Circa 1910.
Good stone piers and cast iron railings etc to Broughton Road. LISTED GRADE 2

1905-10. Ernest E Fatch architect.
A fine example of an "Edwardian Baroque" public building. Grand and self assured.
Ashlar, 2 storeys above a high semi-basement and 13 bays long to Westoe Road.
Each end bay broken forward as a pavillion, framed by coupled pilasters and crowning
pediment. The 3 central bays break forward, have an attic storey, and form a grand
centrepiece. The entrance, with a semi-circular headed window above is framed by
coupled columns and a broken pediment. Reclining figures on the pediment support
a trophy on the apex. The ground floor windows have semi-circular heads. Heavily
rusticated base whose rustications are taken up to the springing line of these
windows. From this line rises the pilaster order.
The symmetry of this composition is badly upset by a grand tower rising above the
north pavillion.
A tall, plain stage with clock faces is crowned by an octagonal turret with columns
supporting gigantic figures.
Competition held in 1901 and won by Fatch. A second, limited competition held in
1902 for a more costly building and again won by Fatch.
Foundation stone laid 1905, building opened 1910.
Good elevation to Beach Road and Broughton Road. Elaborate to Beach Road and simple
and restrained to Broughton Road. LISTED GRADE 2

This church was listed Grade II in 1983 with the following description:
'1866-67. C Hodgson Fowler architect. Pleasant, modest church in Early English style. Coursed rubble and ashlar to windows, doors etc. Slate roofs. Church consists of chancel, nave and a south-west tower. Later, C20, vestry etc on north side of chancel. First stage of tower forms the south porch to the church. Tower of 2 stages, then slides into an octagonal ball-turret with 2 light openings under one pointed arch to each face. Capped by an octagonal spire. The east window of 3 lancets filled with stained glass in 1873. Interior very simple in its detail and decoration.' {1}
1866-7 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Plain, rock-faced. Two-light windows and a high wooden-roofed nave {2}. LISTED GRADE 2

Early C19.
Brick, now painted, slate roof. Three storeys and 2 bays to west elevation,
2 storeys and 4 bays to south elevation. Stone heads to windows.
The principal west elevation has 2 elegant segmental bow windows through the
3 storeys. The bows have 3 lights mostly with the original curved sashes. The
ground windows are blocked. Continuous stone cill band at first and second floors.
The corners of this elevation are marked by broad pilasters. An elegant elevation
and the only one of its type to survive within the old town.
On the long south elevation the 2 western first floor bays are blind the other
2 sashed. The ground floor has 2 sashed windows below those on the first floor and
an unadorned door to the west. The western end of this elevation had a C19 public
house front when it was called "The Alum House". LISTED GRADE 2

1890.
J H Morton, Architect.
John F Scott, Sculptor.
R B Farbridge, Monumental Mason.
45 ft high square ashlar tower, rising in 4 stages, designed in the "classical"
style. First stage plain with a large semi-circular headed recess on each face.
The west one contains a tablet with the inscription "Erected in commemoration of
Jubilee of H M Queen Victoria June 20th 1887, as a memorial of the beneficent work
of the lifeboat as designed and built in South Shields in year 1790." The north
and south each contain a fountain whose waters originally fail into basins at the
base of the tower. These basins now removed. The east recess contains a door
giving access to the interior of the tower.
The second stage has pilasters set at right angles to the corners with entablature
breaking forward over them. West face carries a medallion portrait of Wouldhare,
the east face one of Greathead. Wouldhare and Greathead are the disputed inventors
of the modern lifeboat. The north and south faces have reliefs of a shipwreck and
the return of the lifeboat. The third stage, set back behind a balustraded parapet, contains a clock and the crowning fourth stage is an open cupola. LISTED GRADE 2

1867-69. T M Clemence, Borough Surveyor.
1909. Addition in Wesley Street. T A Page & Son, Architects.
Red brick, with stone dressings and flat roof. Dignified essay in the "Elizabethan"
style, with projecting bays, tall transom and mullioned windows and classical details.
Two storeys, 3 bay square plan. Most of the bays break forward. All corners are
marked by rusticated quoins.
The central entrance from Ocean Road has a grand stone doorcase of paired rusticated
Tuscan columns with full entablature.
The elevation crowned by entablature and balustrade. The balustrade pierced above
the breaks forward and with decorative cresting above.
The bay at the south-east corner is carried up one full storey above the roof level
to form a square tower crowned by an entablature and pierced balustrade. It is lit
by a semi-circular headed window in each face. The tower originally carried an
observatory which was removed in 1979.
The building was cleaned and restored, April 1980.
This was the original building built for the Marine School. LISTED GRADE 2

1858-60. Former Public Library and Museum.
John Wardle, architect.
Buff coloured brick, stone dressings, flat roof. Two storeys and basement.
Three bays, the centre one of which breaks forward and has rusticated quoins.
Designed in a somewhat coarse "Italianate" quatrocento style. The extremities
marked by giant pilasters, the facade crowned by a heavy, bracketed stone cornice.
The central entrances contained within a semi-circular arched opening divided by a
central square column supporting the crown of the arch.
Each outer bay lit by 4 segmental headed windows with plain architraves. Over the
windows a heavy floor band.
First floor lit by 3 grand semi-circular headed openings with continuous cill.
Each divided by a central shaft into 2 semi-circular headed lights with the
tympanum pierced by a small circular light. Continuous impost band. Rusticated
jambs to main openings. Large keystones abut the eaves cornice. Originally built
for the Mechanics' Institute, becoming the Public Library in 1873. The museum added
in 1876. The Library moved to new premises in 1976.
Cleaned and restored 1978-79. LISTED GRADE 2

Circa 1905.
On the east wall of the train shed immediately to the north of the public entrance
is a glazed tile wall showing the former North Eastern Railway company rail
network. It indicates items of historic interest on the routes and has inset plans
of the docks at Hull, Hartlepool, Middlesborough and Tyne and Northumberland Docks.
It consists of 64 tiles framed by a moulded border of gold coloured tiles.
It is signed by the makers: Produced by Craven, Dunnhill & Co, Jackfield. LISTED GRADE 2

A fine double-fronted house set in mature gardens. Built in red brick with a square sandstone porch and bays plus paired window surrounds above. Windows have been replaced and three large rooflights installed.