The Moorings
The Moorings, 16, Brightman Road, North Shields, NE29 0HP
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Overview
Listing NGR: NZ3507668576
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025363
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Moorings
- Statutory Address:
- The Moorings, 16, Brightman Road, North Shields, NE29 0HP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1025363
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- The Moorings
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Moorings, 16, Brightman Road, North Shields, NE29 0HP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Moorings, 16, Brightman Road, North Shields, NE29 0HP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35076 68576
Summary
TYNEMOUTH BRIGHTMAN ROAD NZ 3568 NW North Shields 11/46 20.10.78 No. 16 (The Moorings) G.V. II House. 1850 dated on door architrave. Brick with stone plinth, rusticated quoins and ashlar dressings. 2 storeys raised to 3; 4 windows. 6-panelled door under oblong fanlight recessed in architrave in third bay; blind panel above, beneath sill engraved A PIONEER FOR TYNE IMPROVEMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS. Architrave of door inscribed 18 MOORINGS 50. Bracketed architraves to windows of ground and first floor; eaves gutter cornice above first floor; third floor has sill band, chamfered stone lintels to windows; brick pilasters with stone plinth and capitals support kneelers of stone gable copings. Brick dentilled eaves cornice. 2 ashlar-corniced panelled end brick chimneys. Home of Chevalier Henry Anson Brightman ennobled by the Emperor of Austria for his contribution, while Austro-Hungarian Consul, to famine relief fund-raising. Brightman lived at North Shields from 1847 until he died in 1902. He heped to form the Tyne Commission, which wrested control of the lower reaches of the river from Newcastle Corporation and deepened the channel to make it accessible to all vessels, increasing the prosperity of Tyneside. He also obtained a Custom House at North Shields, so bringing more trade to the lower riparian district. (Tyne and Wear County Archives.) Roofless at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3507668576
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 November 2025 to correct a spelling error in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 3568 NW
11/46
TYNEMOUTH
North Shields
BRIGHTMAN ROAD
No. 16 (The Moorings)
20.10.78
G.V.
II
House. 1850 dated on door architrave. Brick with stone plinth, rusticated quoins and ashlar dressings. Two storeys raised to three; four windows.Six-panelled door under oblong fanlight recessed in architrave in third bay; blind panel above, beneath sill engraved A PIONEER FOR TYNE IMPROVEMENTS BY COMMISSIONERS. Architrave of door inscribed 18 MOORINGS 50. Bracketed architraves to windows of ground and first floor; eaves gutter cornice above first floor; third floor has sill band, chamfered stone lintels to windows; brick pilasters with stone plinth and capitals support kneelers of stone gable copings. Brick dentilled eaves cornice. Two ashlar-corniced panelled end brick chimneys.
Home of Chevalier Henry Anson Brightman ennobled by the Emperor of Austria for his contribution, while Austro-Hungarian Consul, to famine relief fund-raising. Brightman lived at North Shields from 1847 until he died in 1902. He helped to form the Tyne Commission, which wrested control of the lower reaches of the river from Newcastle Corporation and deepened the channel to make it accessible to all vessels, increasing the prosperity of Tyneside. He also obtained a Custom House at North Shields, so bringing more trade to the lower riparian district. (Tyne and Wear County Archives) Roofless at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3507668576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303292
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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