Armstrong House

Armstrong House is a rest home built for workers in Armstrong's Tyneside factories. It was designed in 1914 by Ernest J. Hart of Bamburgh and George Reavel of Alnwick, but was actually constructed in 1925 with a slightly modified design for Lord Armstrong. The building features ashlar and pebbledash with a red-tiled roof and is designed in the Arts and Crafts style. It consists of four irregular ranges surrounding a courtyard and is two storeys tall.

On the entrance side, the central section has ashlar on the ground floor and pebbledash above. The ground floor has three uneven bays, with an off-centre recessed porch that features a round arch with round responds and a moulded arch set in a moulded square surround. To the left, there is a five-light mullioned-and-transomed window with leaded casements, and to the right, a similar one-light window. On the first floor, there are three regularly spaced three-light wooden casements.

Flanking the central section are one-bay, projecting cross-gabled sections that are ashlar on both floors and have mullioned and mullioned-and-transomed windows. The bay to the right projects further, featuring a corniced chimney with a pronounced batter rising from the right corner. The outer bays have one-light windows on the ground floor and one blank above. The roofs are irregularly gabled with swept eaves and corniced ridge and end stacks.