Public Lavatory, Outbuilding And Enclosing Walls, To East Of Link House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1988. Public convenience.
Public Lavatory, Outbuilding And Enclosing Walls, To East Of Link House
- WRENN ID
- vacant-tower-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1988
- Type
- Public convenience
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BLYTH LINKS ROAD NZ 37 NW (EAST SIDE) 5/122 Public lavatory, out-building and enclosing walls, to east of Link House GV II Engine house for Defence Electric Light installation, 1914-19, now public convenience. Brick in English Bond with concrete dressings and reinforced concrete roof. Rectangular building in sunk walled enclosure with outbuilding to north. Single storey, 6 bays: projecting porch at left end (now inscribed 'LADIES'), 4 windows, reduced in size, with stop-chamfered lintels; Gents' doorway on right return is later insertion. Slightly-pitched roof with overhanging eaves. Enclosing wall with pitched coping, extended to north-west to flank curving approach; end piers with pyramidal caps; flight of steps at south-west corner. Embayment in north wall, with later concrete roof, housed cooling tanks; embayment on east with bases for petrol and oil tanks. The building housed 2 dynamos with Crossley engines, powering the defence electric light emplacements (q.v.) 50 metres to the east. As part of a World War 1 D.E.L. installation it is a rare survival.
Listing NGR: NZ3201379680
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