Old Customs House

The Old Customs House, located at 67 Borough Road in Tynemouth, is a Grade II listed building designed by Benjamin Green between 1854 and 1856 for the 4th Duke of Northumberland. This building, originally a sailors' home and later used as offices, features a robust ashlar façade with a rusticated ground floor and a low-pitched Welsh slate roof, forming an L-plan structure.

It stands three storeys high with an attic and is organized into three bays on each side, accentuated by flat giant Ionic pilasters. The third bay contains a four-panelled door topped by a two-paned fanlight, while the fifth bay features a double door within a glazed round-headed opening. The ground floor has round-headed windows, and the first-floor windows are adorned with stilted fanlights beneath fluted surrounds in the second and eighth bays, a pediment in the fifth bay, and architraves in the other bays. The second floor and attic windows are set in plain reveals, all fitted with glazing bars.

A dentilled entablature marks the second floor, and the attic is framed by pilasters beneath a cornice and blocking course. The left return facing New Quay mirrors this style with five and three bays. An elliptical-headed carriage entrance with voussoirs is located in the first bay. At the time of the survey, the ground floor windows were boarded up.