Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage) is a Grade II listed building in the North Tyneside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1986. Orphanage, university hall of residence.
Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage)
- WRENN ID
- shifting-gutter-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Tyneside
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1986
- Type
- Orphanage, university hall of residence
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 26 NE 6/5
LONGBENTON FRONT STREET (north side) Ethel Williams Hall (formerly known as the Northern Counties Orphanage)
(formerly listed as Ethel Williams Hall (part), previously listed as North house)
GV II Vicarage; orphanage in C20; now university hall of residence.Circa 1734 for C.Hayton; c.1757 entrance hall and dining room. Coursed irregularly-squared sandstone; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable coping on curved kneelers at rear, renewed kneelers at front. Ashlar front and brick rear chimneys. Two storeys and attics; five windows. Renewed door with overlight in flat stone surround in fourth bay. Plain narrow sashes in wide boxes; flat stone lintels and sills. Two later hipped dormers, with glazing bars, in double-span roof.
Interior shows panelled room at front left with plain, bracketed, chimney piece; ceiling concealed by inserted ceiling; lugged pedimented architrave to door to rear room; partly-replaced ramped handrail to stair; some two-panelled cupboard doors and internal shutters.
Sources: (Besley) Desultory Notices of the Church and Vicarage of Long Benton, Newcastle, 1843 p.10. M. Hope Dodds History of Northumberland vol. XIII 1930, p.400.
Listing NGR: NZ2730968512
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