Old Customs House
Old Customs House, 67, Borough Road, North Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE29 6LH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355018
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House
- Statutory Address:
- Old Customs House, 67, Borough Road, North Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE29 6LH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355018
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Customs House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Customs House, 67, Borough Road, North Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE29 6LH
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:
- Old Customs House, 67, Borough Road, North Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE29 6LH
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:
- NZ3561667907
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 November 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
NZ 36 NE
8/43
TYNEMOUTH
North Shields
BOROUGH ROAD (west side)
No 67 (Old Customs House)
(Formerly listed as Nos 65, 66 and 67)
24.1.84
G.V.
II
Sailors' Home, was offices. 1854-6 by Benjamin Green for 4th Duke of Northumberland. Ashlar with rusticated ground floor; low-pitched Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Three storeys and attic; three, three and three bays defined by flat giant Ionic pilasters. Four-panelled door under two-paned fanlight in third bay, and double door in glazed round-headed opening in fifth. Round-headed windows in other bays of ground floor. First-floor windows have stilted fanlights under fluted surrounds in bays two and eight; pediment in bay five; architraves in remaining bays. Second floor and attic windows in plain reveals, all with glazing bars. Dentilled entablature to second floor; attic defined by pilasters under cornice and blocking course. Similar style left return to New Quay: five and three bays. Voussoirs to elliptical-headed carriage entrance in first bay. Ground floor windows boarded up at time of survey.
Source: H.E. Craster History of Northumberland vol. VIII The Parish of Tynemouth 1907.
Listing NGR: NZ3561667907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303289
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Craster, H H E, A History of Northumberland in The Parish Of Tynemouth, Vol. 8, (1907)
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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