TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE

TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE, PIER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184976
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE, PIER ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-23
Reference:: IOE01/00188/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184976
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE, PIER ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: TYNEMOUTH WATCH HOUSE, PIER ROAD

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 37252 69053

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/04/2012

NZ 3769 SW 10/109

TYNEMOUTH PIER ROAD (south end, off) Tynemouth Tynemouth Watch House

(Formerly listed as Tynemouth Watch Club House)

G.V. II

Volunteer Life Brigade watch house 1886-7 by C.T. Gomoszynski, Borough Engineer. Weatherboarding on painted rendered plinth; right return has painted brick chimney stack; Welsh slate roof with wood finials and ventilator. H-plan. One-storey, 6-bay centre block flanked by 3-storey left and 2-storey right canted-bay towers. All windows sashes with late C19 glazing bars except those on top floor of 3-storey tower. Hipped roof. Rear elevation has 4-panelled door in inner return of 3-bay loggia; sliding storm shutters to 3 windows in loggia; 2 windows in left wing and one in right.

Historical note: Tynemouth Life Brigade, founded 1864, was the first in the country; its purpose was to save lives by firing rocket-borne lines to shipwrecks. The Black Midden rocks in the Tyne were the cause of much loss of life. Listed mainly for historical interest.

Listing NGR: NZ3725269053

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Legacy System number:: 303355
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.