Rocket Garage is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Garage.

Rocket Garage

WRENN ID
secret-trefoil-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Tyneside
Country
England
Date first listed
19 February 1986
Type
Garage
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rocket Garage is a life brigade apparatus house, now serving as a garage, dating from 1867 as indicated above the door. It was built for the Cullercoats Life Brigade. The structure is made of painted snecked stone with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a graduated slate roof that features a tall brick chimney at one end. The building is single-storey and consists of one by three bays, with the gable end facing the street.

It has a double boarded door set in an elliptical-headed keyed arch with alternate-block jambs. Above the door, there is an inscribed stone scroll that reads: LIFE BRIGADE HOUSE/1867. A small chamfered pointed-arched niche is positioned above this inscription. On the right side of the building, there are two windows and one blind bay. The bargeboards are adorned with finials.

Historically, this was the second Life Brigade established in the country, formed shortly after the first one in Tynemouth in 1864. These brigades were instrumental in developing the technique of rescuing shipwreck victims by firing lifelines to distressed vessels.

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