Cullercoats Watch Club House

TYNEMOUTH VICTORIA CRESCENT (east side) NZ 37 SE Cullercoats 5/141 14.2.85 Cullercoats Watch Club House G.V. II Look-out house, now club. 1877-79 by F. W. Rich for Cullercoats Life Brigade. Roughly squared sandstone with rock-faced quoins and dressings; wood verandah; plain-tiled roof. Shingled belfry with balustrade. One-storey, one-bay gable end to street and set-back corner porch at left; rear polygonal. Boarded door in porch under catslide roof; 4-x 3-light stone-mullioned square-headed window under gable has 2 stone and one wood transoms. Casements with glazing bars in back verandah which has turned posts supporting catslide hipped roof. Clock turret, in right return, has tall octagonal roof. Historical note: Cullercoats Life Brigade was the second to be formed, immediately after that at Tynemouth on 5th December 1864. Source:"Cullercoats in the Old Days" lecture by Alderman Spence reported in Shields Daily News, March 1901.

Listing NGR: NZ3640071402