Latitude: 55.0039 / 55°0'13"N
Longitude: -1.4169 / 1°25'0"W
OS Eastings: 437395
OS Northings: 567857
OS Grid: NZ373678
Mapcode National: GBR LBKL.11
Mapcode Global: WHD4S.6HK9
Plus Code: 9C7W2H3M+H6
Entry Name: South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House
Listing Date: 18 May 1978
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1277138
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407680
ID on this website: 101277138
Location: The Lawe, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, NE33
County: South Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Beacon and Bents
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: South Shields
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: South Shields St Aidan and St Stephen (The Lawe)
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Architectural structure Lifeguard station
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NZ 36 NE
12/66
SOUTH PIER
South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House
18.5.78
II
1867 following upon the founding of the South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade. Tower and small surgery added in 1875. Wood framed with timber cladding and slated roofs having overhanging eaves and fancy bargeboards to gable ends. The surgery extension is of brick, one bay only. One storey, four by six bays in all with octagon look-out tower at north-east corner, this having a low pitched pointed roof with decorative eaves brackets. Wood mullioned and transomed casements. Low retaining walls with cast iron railings.
Listed mainly for its historic importance as one of only two surviving buildings original to their founding organisations, (the other is at Tynemouth) of which organisations only three still continue to function for rescue of shipwrecked people.
Listing NGR: NZ3739567857
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