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Latitude: 55.0104 / 55°0'37"N
Longitude: -1.5745 / 1°34'28"W
OS Eastings: 427309
OS Northings: 568512
OS Grid: NZ273685
Mapcode National: GBR KBFH.XP
Mapcode Global: WHC3K.SBF8
Entry Name: Ethel Williams Hall
Listing Date: 19 February 1986
Last Amended: 17 December 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025390
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303250
Location: North Tyneside, NE12
County: North Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Benton
Built-Up Area: Newcastle upon Tyne
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Long Benton St Bartholomew
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
In the entry for:-
NZ 26 NE LONGBENTON FRONT STREET
(north side)
6/5 Ethel Williams Hall (part)
(formerly listed as North House)
27.2.50
GV II
The address shall be amended by the removal of the previous
list date and the address shall be amended to read:-
NZ 26 NE LONGBENTON FRONT STREET
(north side)
6/5 Ethel Williams Hall
(formerly known as the Northern
Counties Orphanage)
GV II
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LONGBENTON FRONT STREET (north side)
NZ 26 NE
6/5 Longbenton
27.2.50 Ethel Williams Hall (part)
(formerly listed as North house)
G.V.
II
Vicarage; orphanage in C20; now university hall of residence. Circa 1734 for C.Hayton;
c.1757 entrance hall and dining room. Coursed irregularly-squared sandstone; Welsh
slate roof with flat stone gable coping on curved kneelers at rear, renewed kneelers
at front. Ashlar front and brick rear chimneys. 2 storeys and attics; 5 windows.
Renewed door with overlight in flat stone surround in fourth bay. Plain narrow sashes
in wide boxes; flat stone lintels and sills. 2 later hipped dormers, with glazing bars,
in double-span roof. Interior shows panelled room at front left with plain, bracketed,
chimney piece; ceiling concealed by inserted ceiling; lugged pedimented architrave to
door to rear room; partly-replaced ramped handrail to stair; some 2-panelled cupboard
doors and internal shutters. Sources: (Besley) Desultory Notices of the Church and
Vicarage of Long Benton, Newcastle, 1843 p.lO. M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland
vol. XIII 1930, p.400.
Listing NGR: NZ2730968512
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