MASTER MARINERS' HOMES

MASTER MARINERS' HOMES, TYNEMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185201
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: MASTER MARINERS' HOMES
Statutory Address:: MASTER MARINERS' HOMES, TYNEMOUTH ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185201
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: MASTER MARINERS' HOMES
Statutory Address 1:: MASTER MARINERS' HOMES, TYNEMOUTH 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:: MASTER MARINERS' HOMES, TYNEMOUTH 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 36459 69076

Details

TYNEMOUTH TYNEMOUTH ROAD (north side) NZ 36 NE Tynemouth 8/129 Master Mariners' Homes G.V. II Almshouses, now 18 old people's homes. 1837, by J.and B. Green for Tyne Mariners' Benevolent Institution; land given by Duke of Northumberland; restored 1973. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and plinth; Welsh slate roof; lead tower roof. Jacobean style, E-plan with central tower, symmetrical. 2 storeys, 2 groups of 3 bays each, the other groups breaking forward under paired gables. Open-arched ground floor in central projecting bay with 3-storey tower; first floor niche containing commemorative inscription and arms of Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne, under elaborate dripmould; clock stage above has corbel table and cornice; ogee-hipped roof with square bellcote and vane. Inserted C.20 doors in central bays of wings; centres of groups flanking tower have inserted casements in blocked doorways. Each central bay projects slightly under shaped gable and is flanked by first-floor corbelled oriels under smaller shaped gables. Casement windows, 3-light on ground floor and 2- light above. High-sloped gable copings, with spear finials and moulded kneelers to principal gables. Conjoined octagonal chimneys at apex of gables to street, ridge chimneys on double span roof.

Listing NGR: NZ3645969076

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Legacy System number:: 303377
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.