Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480513

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)