Ballard'S Smoke House Clifford'S Fort And Boundary Stones Attached

TYNEMOUTH UNION ROAD (east side, off) NZ 3668 NW North Shields. 13/133 Clifford's Fort (No. 9) (Ballard's Smoke House) and boundary stones attached. G.V. II Smoke house, formerly barracks building; 2 military fort boundary stones. Circa 1920 smoke house built on mid C19 military building; mid C19 boundary stones. Smoke house: sandstone rubble rear lower courses, brick ground floor in varying bonds with sandstone dressings; weatherboarded upper stages; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays and 3 storeys one bay at right. Central sliding door; flat stone lintel and projecting stone sill to blocked window at left ground floor; weatherboarded first floor has horizontal sliding sashes; 3-storey section has top-hung weatherboarded ventilator shutters. Long louvred ridge ventilator has 4 tall ventilator stacks. Boundary stones: square blocks set in rubble north wall, at about 1 1/2 metres above ground, inscribed WD/BS/No. 15; in west face of north-west corner, about 150 cm above ground, inscribed WD/BS/No. 16:

Listing NGR: NZ3635568574