Cullercoats Watch Club House

Cullercoats Watch Club House is a look-out house that has been converted into a club, built between 1877 and 1879 by F. W. Rich for the Cullercoats Life Brigade. The building is constructed from roughly squared sandstone, featuring rock-faced quoins and dressings, and has a wood verandah with a plain-tiled roof. It includes a shingled belfry topped with a balustrade. The structure is one storey high with a single bay gable end facing the street and a set-back corner porch on the left side. The rear of the building is polygonal in shape. The porch contains a boarded door beneath a catslide roof, while the gable features a 4 by 3-light stone-mullioned square-headed window with two stone and one wood transom. The back verandah has casement windows with glazing bars and is supported by turned posts beneath a hipped roof. A clock turret is located on the right return and has a tall octagonal roof. Historically, the Cullercoats Life Brigade was the second brigade to be established, following the one in Tynemouth, which was formed on December 5, 1864.