Tasker Hall

Tasker Hall, 25, Howard Street, North Shields, NE 30 1AR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299960
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: Tasker Hall
Statutory Address:: Tasker Hall, 25, Howard Street, North Shields, NE 30 1AR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299960
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: Tasker Hall
Statutory Address 1:: Tasker Hall, 25, Howard Street, North Shields, NE 30 1AR

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:: Tasker Hall, 25, Howard Street, North Shields, NE 30 1AR

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 35642 68392

Details

This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement to update text, sources, name and address on the 28 October 2021

NZ 3568 SE 14/82

TYNEMOUTH North Shields HOWARD STREET (west side) No. 25 (Tasker Hall)

(Formerly listed as No. 25)

G. V. II

In 1796 John Wright (1730-1806), lawyer and property developer, purchased 50 acres of land between Norfolk Street and Newcastle Street from Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle, for the development of the New Town of North Shields. He developed several elegant streets and it is suggested Northumberland Place, Northumberland Square and Howard Street were originally part of a high-status street scheme which Wright, and his sons, devised and implemented before selling freehold buildings plots to individuals. A substantial mansion, Wakefield House, was built by George Wakefield (c 1764-1806, banker) as the northern vista to the intended grand principal way from Howard Street to Northumberland Square, but due to financial difficulties and the death of George Wakefield it was demolished in the 1800s. Northumberland Place and the south foot of Howard Street, below Saville Street, were developed first with housing and public buildings, with the earliest documentary evidence for Northumberland Place an 1800 release for premises. Between 1810 and 1816 Northumberland Square began development as a residential garden square when houses were built on the site of Wakefield House, re-using its materials and stylistically matching those already built on Northumberland Place. Further housing, public buildings and churches were built on Howard Street and Northumberland Square through the mid- to late C19.

This Sunday School for boys, girls and infants was built in 1841 by the Minister David Tasker for the Orthodox Presbyterian congregation, to replace a former school. It is attached to the south side of the Scotch Church, of 1811 by John Dobson, and forms part of the architectural composition of buildings used by the Presbyterian congregation. The building first appears on the 1:500 OS 1896 Town Plan of Northumberland Square. It became a church hall, known as Tasker Hall, before the First World War before its current use as a stage school for dance.

A non-conformist church school, now a dance studio, built around 1841 for the Scotch church. It is of two-storeys and built in sandstone ashlar; with a C20 pebble-dash rendered ground floor and a Welsh slate roof. The hipped roof has a tall corniced ashlar chimney to the north. The building breaks forward from the Scotch Church (now Salvation Army Citadel) with a three-bay elevation to the south and east. The main (east) elevation has C20 inserted doors across the two right (north) bays and a south window. The first floor has an architrave, sill band and sash windows with glazing bars, which is matched on the right return. The ground floor north return has blocked windows.

Listing NGR: NZ3564268392

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Legacy System number:: 303327
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Craster, H H E, A History of Northumberland, 266, 131, (1907)
Phillips, M, A History of Banks, Bankers and Banking in Northumberland, Durham and North Yorkshire, 205,212, (1894)
Richardson, M A, The Local Historian’s Table Book of Remarkable Occurrences, 56, (1843)

Legal

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